WORK WAS UNDER 4AY TO REPAIR A SPREADER BAR THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM A DRAGLINE BUCKET THE BAR CONSISTING OF A TWO 8 INCH DIAMETER SCHEDULE 80 PIPES AND STEEL BLOCK AT EACH END WAS ABOUT 3 30-35 FT LONG I7 HAD DEFORMED IN THE SHAPE OF A 1 SUCH THAT THE BLOCKS WERE NOW 15 FT APART BAR WAS BEING HELD UPRIGHT BY A FORKLIFT A WELDER HAD CUT ONE OF THE , IN PIPES NEAR ONE OF THE BLO
Mining Incidents in December 1986
All MSHA-reportable mining accidents in December 1986, sorted by severity. Fatalities appear first.
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 1,986
- Period
- December 1986
Top operators this month
- 01 Peabody Coal Company 143 incidents
- 02 Consolidation Coal Company 88 incidents
- 03 Southern Ohio Coal Company 36 incidents
- 04 Old Ben Coal Company 34 incidents
- 05 Keystone Coal Mining Corp 29 incidents
Most recent 500 incidents
Showing the 500 most recent of 1,986 incidents this month. All fatalities are included and listed first.
EMPLOYEE STOPPE8 TO LEND ASSISTANCE TO THE WATER TRUCK OPERATOR WHEN THE FRONT END LOADER OPERATOR, THINKING THE HAULER OPERATOR WAS STUCK, PUSHED THE HAULER INTO THE EMPLOYEE AND TRUCK
THE VICTIM WAS 7ROUBLE SHOOTING A 480 VOLT AC, LIGHT CIRCUIT WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED WIRES
EMPLOYEE WENT I3TO WRONG COMPARTMENT OF PRECIPITATOR AND WAS ELECTROCUTED
INJURED WAS RID3NG TRAIN ALONG WITH TRAIN OPERATOR WHEN THE LOCOMOTIVE AND ONE CAR DERAILED. THE TRAIN WRECKED, AND THE CAR HIT IT IN THE REAR. THE INJURED MANS THUMB WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HAND RAIL ON TH9 REAR OF THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE TRAIN CAR.
EMP WAS MOVING 5 MINE POST WHICH CAUSED INJURY
EMP WAS STACKIN1 OFF ON12-23-86, NOTICED TIGHTNESS IN STOMACH AREA, DIDNT THINK ANYTHING ABOUT IT. ON 12-29-86 EMP WORKED 1 HOUR AND THEN NOTIFIED FOREMAN OF HIS DISCOMFORT, THEN WENT BACK TO WORK. HE WENT T2 2 DOCTORS WHO TOLD HIM TO WORK LIGHT DUTY FOR A FEW DAYS. UPON SEEING THIRD DOCTOR, HE WAS TOLD HE HAD A HERNIA STARTED LOSING TIME ON 2-2-87- 1/2 DAY- THEN OFF FOR APPROX 6 W
EE CLAIMS HE WA8 HELPING CO-WORKERS LIFT & POSITION A BELLY PAN UNDERNEATH THE 983 DOZER WHEN HE FELT A BURNING STINGING PAIN IN THE LEFT GROIN AREA.
5 WEST LONGWALL3SECTION EMPL PULLING HYDRAULIC HOSES ONLEFT SIDE OF BELT OUTBY STAGELOADER.NOTICED PAIN IN RIGHT GROIN AREA-CONTINUED TO WORK AND FINISHED HIS SHIFT.EMPL STARTED MISSING WORK 1 -8-87. 3
I.NAME CLAIMS T2AT HE WAS CARRYING 1 CEMENT BLOCK 10-20# WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SIDE. BLOCK WAS CARRIED APPROX 150' DISTANCE.
TAPPING SHAFT O0 TRUCK WITH HAMMER AND PIECE OF STEEL FLEW OFF INTO MECHANICS EYE CAUSING LOSS OF SIGHT(PERMANENT).
EMPL CUT CHAIN 4ITH CHAIN CUTTERS AND LATER FELT PAIN IN GROIN AREA.AFTER MEDICAL EXAM IT WAS DETERMINED EMPL HAD SUFFERED HERNIA.
SHIELD CAR ROLL9D OVER EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT. EMPLOYEE STARTED LOOSING TIME 12-14-86
EMPL ADJUSTING 0EEDER ON PLANT HOPPER USING 3/4DRIVE RATCHET AND SOCKET.HE WAS SITTING DOWN APPLYING PRESSURE WITH FEET AND LEGS FOOT SLIPPED OFF WRENCH CAUSING HERNIA.
DRILL OPERATOR 4AS BACKING DRILLTO PASS ANOTHER DRILL ON THE SAME BENCH WHILE BLASTE ASSISTED. BLASTER WAS APPARENTLY TRAPPED BETWEEN CAB OF MOVING DRILL 25C 2548 AND DUST COLLECTOR OF STATIO DRILL 25C 2560 7RUSHING HEAD CAUSING MASSIVE HEAD INJURY
WEARING WEDDING3RING
STRAINED HIMSEL0 SETTING TIMBERS RESULTING IN AN INGUINAL HERNIA.
60 # TRACK SWIT7H WOULDNT ALIGN FOR EMPTY TRACK I.NAME SAID THE PLUNGER ASSEMBLY WAS STUCK AND HE DECIDED TO REMOVE BARREL SPRING WAS LOADED AND AS HE REMOVED PIN TO LIFT BARREL OUT IT CAME LO OSE CATCHING HI8 RT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN THROW PLATE AND END OF BARREL ASSEMBLY THE RT INDEX FINGER WAS AMPUTATED AND MIDDLE ONE SEVERLY CUT HE WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL FOR SURGERY
HE WAS WORKING 2N AN INLINE WATER PUMP AND SUFFERED A HERNIA
INJURED CLAIMS 2E WAS INSTALLING A 17" DUST PIPE OVER THE #24 SCREW WHEN HE FELT SHARP PAIN IN LEFT GROIN.
EMPLOYEE REMOVE8 INSPECTION DOOR FROM DUST COLLECTOR TO INSPECT FOR BLOCKAGE. HE OBSERVED A CHUNK OF CEMENT CAUGHT INSIDE DOOR. HE REACHED IN WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, GRABBED THE CHUNK, TWISTED IT TO DISLODGE 3T, AND AS IT LOOSENED, ITS WEIGHT PUSHED HIS HAND DOWNWARD TO WHERE THE ROTATING ROTARY VALVE BELOW THE INSPECTION DOOR STRUCK HIS FINGER, CAUSING INJURIES TO HIS INDEX FINGER.
MOVING 55 GAL D9UM OF OIL HERNIA
INJURED WAS IN 7HE PROCESS OF PUSHING A ROOF BOLT INTO THE HOLE WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SIDE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN3THE PROCESS OF JOINING RAILCARS TOGETHER WHEN HE NOTICED THE COUPLER WAS NOT OPEN. HE ATTEMPTED TO OPEN COUPLER WITH FOOT AND SLIPPED, CATCHING FOOT BETWEEN RAIL AND WHEEL OF M OVING TRACMOBIL9, AMPUTATING THREE TOES ON RIGHT FOOT.
RIGHT HAND WENT3INTO GEARS ON JAW CUSHER - LOSS OF INDEX FINGER OR R HAND & PARTIAL DISABILITY TO MIDDLE FINGER
WHILE TRYING TO3CLEAN ROOTS FROM #1 SCREEN, ROCK SLIDE DOWN SCREEN AND CRUSHED MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
HE WAS LIFTING 5N OXYGEN BOTTLE TO MOVE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND STRAINED HIS GROIN
LIFTING ON GEAR3BOX.
THE ROPE THAT P6LLS THE BELT TAKEUP ROLLOR HAD HUNG UP BETWEEN THE SHIEVE WHEEL AND HOUSING THAT HOLDS THE SHIEVE WHEEL. THE ROPE HAD THE PRESSURE LET OFF AND THEN THE BELT ROLLOR TOOK UP SUD DENLY. HE HAD 2IS HAND ON THE ROPE AT THIS TIME. WHEN IT SLIPPED IT CRUSHED HIS FINGERS.
EE WAS PACKING 2N COLORPACKER WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING STING ONT HE LEFT SIDE OF HIS LOWER STOMACH. WHEN EE GOT HOME HE FOUND A KNOT ON HIS LEFT SIDE. EE WENT TO THE DOCTOR & HE HAS A RUPTURE WHICH THE DOCTO9 IS GOING TO OPERATE ON 12-30-86.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING SHUTTLE CAR WHEN CAB HIT ROOF PAN & RIPPED CAB OFF. KNOCKING IT AGAINST TOP RIGHT SIDE PF EMPLOYEE'S BODY, HITTING SHOULDER & HAND, CUTTING RIGHT RING FINGER OFF.
EE NOTICED A V-6ELT SLIPPING ON A ROLLER WHICH WAS CAUSING THE ROLLER ON THE EXOION TO S TOP. EE SLAPPED THE BELTS WITH THE BACK OF HIS HAND. THE BELTS CAUGHT HIS FINGERS & PULLED THEM IN B ETWEEN THE BELT8 & THE PULLEY.
EMPLOYEE WAS PU5LING ON WATER PUMP ON 12-1-86 AND THOUGHT HE PULLED STOMACH MUSCLE AND DID NOT REPORT IT ON 1-15-87 EMPLOYEE WAS P ULLING ON WATTER HOSE AND NOTICED A KNOT IN LOWER STOMACH HE REPORTED ACCIDE3T AND WAS SENT TO A DR
STEPPED OFF DO1ER AND SLIPPED TWISTING HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3HE BROKE HIS WRIST WHEN HE FELL WHILE USING A HOOK TYPE LADDER AS A STRAIGHT LADDER
LIFTING RAILS O3 FLAT CAR & THE EE STRAINED BACK & GROIN.
EMPLOYEE BEGAN 5OSING TIME ON THIS INJURY 4-7-86 BEGINING 12-31-86 THE EMPPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK 1-12-87
WHILE CHANGING 6ATTERIES IN S COOP SH-105 SCOOP OPERATOR COMPLAINED OF STRAINING HIS BACK WHILE PUSHING ON BATTERIES.
LOCATION-EAST P3T. EMPLOYEE WASHOOKING UP A PIPE TRAILOR TO A FORKLIFT. OTHER EMPLOYEE WENT FORWARD WITH THE FORKLIFT INSTEAD OF BACKING UP, THE HITCH SLIPPED OFF THE FORK LIFT AND THE TRAILOR TONGUE FELL ON7O THE EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT RESULTING IN A CONTUSION OF HIS FOOT.
I.NAME WAS CARR2ING FEEDER FLIGHTS AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE DIDNT GO TO DR UNTIL SOMETIME IN FEB 87 HAD SURGERY ON 4-9-87 DIDNT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 4-8-87 WHEN HE CHECKED IN HOSPITAL DR FEELS HE WILL BE OFF3WORK 3 TO 4 WEEKS
EMPLOYEE HAD BE9N PLACING 6"X6"X3' TIMBERS UNDER A D-9 DOZER, WHEN HE WAS RAISING TO A STANDING POSITION FROM A KNEELING POSITION, HE FELT A KINK IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING ON MINER REHANGING CURTAIN WHEN A SLUG FELL FROM AROUND BOLT, KNOCKING HIM DOWN ON THE MINER.
EE WAS TRAVELIN1 TOWARD THE FEEDER WITH HIS HAND HOLDING TO THE CANOPY LEG FOR SUPPORT. THE CANOPY PITCHED BACKWARDS PINCHING & FOULING THE EES RING FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND. THE EES FINGER W AS LACERATED FR2M THE 2ND KNUCKLE TO NEARLY THE TIP OF HIS FINGER. CANOPY HIT A ROOF BOLT AT TIME OF INJURY.
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING SUPPLIES ONTO SCOOP WHILE CARRYING TWO DUNDLE OF WEDGES HE BENT OVER TO PASS UNDER TROLLEY WIRE AT THIS ACTION HE HAD PAIN IN LOWER BACK WHICH MAYBE A STRAINED MUSCLE.
THREE EMPLOYEES3WERE MOVING A SHAKER SHAFT BY HAND. ONE EMPLOYEE CLAIMED INJURY.
PULLING FEED PL6G,HANDLE BROKE AND HE FELL 3' INJURING KNEE AND BACK.
CITTING A PIECE3OF 2 INCH WATER LINE WITH POCKET KNIFE.
LOADING RAIL ON3FLAT CAR PIECE OF BENT STEEL RAIL FLIPPED UP AND CAUGHT EMPL FINGER AND THUMB AGAINST MINE ROOF MASHING THEM.
MADE A SMALL CU7 ON HIS RT KNEE WHILE CUTTING BELT TO MAKE A BELT SPLICE ON IMPPUT WASHER BELT
MAN STATED THAT3WHILE SETTING ROOF BOLTER CANOPY AGAINST ROOF A PIECE OF SLATE FELL AND STRUCK MAN ON NOSE CAUSING LACERATION
EMPL PULLING ON3WRENCH.WRENCH SLIPPED OFF BOLT.HE BUMPED HIS ELBOW ON RADIATOR CORE SUPPORT CAUSING NUMBNESS IN THE RING AND LITTLE FINGER OF LEFT HAND.1ST DAY LOST 2-19-87.
EE WAS PREPARIN1 TO START WORK- WINDY CONDITIONS EXISTED, PERLITE PARTICLE IN RIGHT EYE.
EMPLOYEE INJURE8 RT KNEE WHILE OPERATING ROOF BOLTER WITHOUT PROPER KNEE PROTECTION (KNEE PADS)
MOTOR GRADER OP9RATOR STARTED TO DISMOUNT FROM RT SIDE OF MACHINE MISSING FIRST STEP WITH LEFT FOOT OPERATOR HAD GOOD HAND HOLD ON GRAB BAR WITH LEFT HAND BUT RT HAND SLIPPED & ALL OF INJURE DS WEIGHT WAS S2IFTED TO LEFT ARM CAUSING A TGEAR OF THE ROTATOR CUFF IN LEFT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE REACHE8 INSIDE A LARGE SLIDING DOOR PULLED ON A CHAIN TO CLOSE IT HIS JACKET WAS SNAGGED BY A LOCK HASP WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO PULL HIS ARM OUT THE DOOR SLID SHUT MASHING HIS ARM AGAI ST THE STATIONA9Y DOOR ON THE OTHER SIDE RESULTING IN A FRACTURE OF HIS RT FOREARM
LOOKING THROUGH3PILE OF RETURN IDLERS.PICKING THEM UP AND MOVING THEM SO HE COULD MEASURE LENGTH OF IDLERS.
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A IRON BAR TO PUSH SOME BRICK ALONG ON A ROLLER CONVEYOR IN A KILN. WHILE PUSHING ON THE BAR HE SLIPPED AND THE END OF BAR STRUCK HIM IN LOWER RIGHT RIB CAGE. HE WORKED TWO DAYS BEFORE THE3FRACTURE OF THE RIB WAS NOTED. DOCTOR AUTHORIZED HIM TO STAY OFF WORK BEGINNING 1-5-87.
HE STEPPED OUT 2F DOZER ON TO TRACK HAD FEET SLIPPED AND HE FELL AND STRUCK LOWER PART OF BACK
BRUISED RING FI3GER LEFT HAND WITH DRILL STEEL.
EMP WAS GOING T2 SUPPLY ROOM TO GET PARTS. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE TOP STEP AT SMALL RAKE CLASSIFER. THERE ARE ONLY 2 STEPS, HE FELL TO FLOOR CATCHING HIMSELF WITH LEFT WRIST. WRIST BEGAN TO SWELL AFTER WOR5ING HOURS AND HE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM, DR DIAGNOSED INJURY AS SEVERE SPRAIN WITH CONTUSION OF LEFT WRIST
INJURED WAS REM2VING BOLTS TO BREAK THE DOZER TRACK.FOR SOME REASON HE REMOVED THE TRACK UP HIGHER NEAR THE SPROCKET,INSTEAD OF NEAR THE GROUND.WHEN THE TRACK BROKE FREE,IT FELL BACKWARDS AND AND INJURED COU5D NOT GET HIS FOOR OUT OF THE WAY.HE STATED HE WAS WEARING SAFETY SHOIESD BUT THE FORCE OF THE BLOW FACTURED HIS TOE ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
I,NAME WAS WALK3NG TO A FUEL TRUCK #65200 IN ORDER TO GET HIS LUNCH BUCKET. AS HE GOT TO THE TRUCK, AN AIR TANK ON THE BED OF THE TRUCK RUPTRED AND SPRAYED I,NAME WITH OIL AND DIRT.
WAS UNLOADING T3MBERS FROM SCOOP & DROPPED ONE ON HIS LEFT FOOT
#2 BELTLINE I,N5ME WAS LIFTING UP ONE SIDE OF A BOTTOM ROLLER WHICH CAEM OUT OF THE BELT STAND BRACKET WHEN IT SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND CAUSING A PAIN IN HIS BACK.
PERSON WAS COMP5AINING ABOUT STOMACH PAINS ON THE 12-29 ON THE 12-30 THE PERSON LEFT THE JOB SITE GOING TO THE DOCTOR ON HIS OWN, NO MENTION WAS MADE TO ANY PERSON ON THE JOB ABOUT A ACCIDENT OCCURRING INVO5VING HIS BACK. ONLY THAT HE WAS SICK AT HIS STOMACH. THERE WAS NO WITNESS TO ANY ACCIDENT INVOLVING THIS PERSONS ON ANY OF THESE DATES PERSON TOLD EVERYONE HE WAS SICK AT STOM
MINER WAS ASSIS7ING IN INSTALLION OF WATERJACK PUMP INTO FLOAT CHAMBER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LOWER PUMP INTO CHAMBER USING DOZER WINCH/A-FRAME PUMP HUNG UP ON EDGE OF HOLE EMPLOYEE PUSHED ON PU MP HOUSING IT B9OKE FREE DROPPED INTO HOLE AND CAUGHT HAND IN PINCH POINT
WHILE CLEANING 9OCK CHUTE A METAL LID FELL ON WORKMANS FOOT
EMP WAS HELPING3LOAD AN ELECTRIC MOTOR ON TRUCK WHEN HE FELT PAIN LIKE A KNIFE IN HIS BACK
WAS REMOVING 203FOOT LONG PIECES OF 6 INCH CHANNEL IRON FROM BED OF PICK-UP TRUCK WHEN HE APPARENTLY STRAINED HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A SHEET PLATE UP THE STAIRS IN THE PREP PLANT WHEN HE SLIPPED ON A STEP AND TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE
WHILE LIFTING A3PLANETARY CAGE WITH A HOIST TO PLACE ON A HEAD SHAFT,THE CAGE BROKE LOOSE FROM THE HOOK UP ON THE HOIST,FALLING ON THE LOWER PART OF HIS RIGHT LEG.SAFETY HOOK AND CHAINSWERE NO T USED.A(FAN)V 6ELT WAS HOOKED IN A PLAIN HOOK INSTEAD OF USING SAFETY HOOK AND CHAIN OR EYE BOLT.
EMPLOYEE WAS MO6TING TRACTOR WHEN HE PULLED HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
LIFTING A ROLLE9 (RETURN) TO INSTALL,FELT PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING CHANGE WATER PUMP. WHILE DOING SO HE HIT HIS RIGHT KNEE ON PLATE AS HE WAS REMOVING IT FROM THE BELLY PAN.
EMPLOYEE WAS S7ANDING ON CONVEYOR BELT, HE TOLD TO START THE CONVEYOR BELT AND HIS FOOT WAS STUCK ON BELT.
EMPLOYEE WAS PU7TING BREAKOUT TOOL IN BUGGY; RESTED IT ON HIS TOE AND WHEN HE REMOVED HIS TOE, HE SMASHED HIS FINGER.
TAKING A BELT R2LLER OFF BELT-MASHED HAND AGAINST ROOF.
EE WAS WORKING 2N A JACK ON DOZER. HE STATED THAT HE SLIPPED ON THE TRACKS & SPRAINED HIS KNEE. HE DID NOT STOP WORK OR SEEK MEDICAL TREASTMENT AT T HE TIME. ON 3-20-87 HE STOPPED WORK & WE NT TO THE DOCTO9 FOR REPAIR OF THE KNN BY ARCHROSCOPY TREATMENT.
EMP WAS ON LONG4ALL FACE AND WAS CROSSING OVER PANLINE TO SERVICE MACHINE WHEN HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE
WORKING ON PLAN7 REPAIRS--HITTING A CHISEL WITH HAMMER--PIECE OF CHISEL BROKE OFF AND LODGED IN LEFT HAND,5TH OR LITTLE FINGER.
STEPPING INTO D9ILL AND SOMETHING PULLED IN BACK AND PAIN IN LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING IN THE YARD DEPARTMENT WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS ELBOW ON 1-8-87 HE STATED THAT HIS ELBOW WAS STILL BOTHERING HIM AND WAS TAKEN TO THE PLANT PHYSICIAN
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT AS HE SAT DOWN AT THE LUNCH TABLE IN LUNCH ROOM TO EAT HIS LUNCH THAT HE BUMPED THE CALF OFHIS RIGHT LEG ON THE SEAT OF THE TABLE. THAT AFTERNOON WHEN HE ACROSS FROM SLEPP ING HIS LEG WAS3SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL.
LIFTING MINOR C5BLE OVERHEAD AND FELT SOMETHING SNAP IN LEFT WRIST- DISTAL SLIGHTLY DISPLACED FRACTURE OF THE RADIUS.
RAN FRONT TIRE 2F PAN OVER ROCK, CAUSING MACHINE TO TURN AND DROP SHARPLY, TWISTING EMPLOYEE'S BACK.
EMP WAS BACKING3UP TO DUMP SHEN RIGHT SIDE OF RAMP STARTED TO GIVE WAY, HE SET BR A KES & UNLOADXXX UNLATCHED DOOR & JUMPED FROM HAULPAK LANDING ON L LEG. FALL CAUSED MULTIPLE FRACTURES OF LO WER LEG 3
I,NAME WAS PERF2RMING JANITORIAL DUTIES IN THE WOMEN'S RESTROOM AREA ON THE DAY SHIFT OF 12-29-86. THIS INCLUDED REFILLING 25 CLEANED, EMPTY 5 GALLON PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES USED THROUGHOUT THE PLANT. AT APPRO3. 9:50AM WHILE LIFTING A FILLED BOTTLE WEIGHING APPROX. 38# OUT OF THE SINK, I,NAME ALLEGES TWISTING AND FELLING A SHARP PAIN IN HER BACK ANDWAS UNABLE TO CONTINUE.
EMPLOYEE LIFTIN1 CABLES AND STRAINED BACK
EMPLOYEE STATES3USING STEAM JENNY TO WASH OFF PUMP TRUCK. SLIPPED ON ICE COVERED CONCRETE PAD, FELL AND INJURED LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS PR9PARING TO PUT A QUART OF OIL INTO THE ENGINE OF THE REPAIR TRUCK. AS EMPLOYEE GRABBED TOP SECTION OF GRILLE HOUSING TO PULL HIMSELF UP THE HOOD SPRING BROKE THE HOOD FELL HOOD LATCH CAUGHT A3D PUNCTURED RIGHT HAND.
THIS MAN WAS PL5CING & FINISHING CONCRETE. WHILE PLACING CONCRETE THE CONCRETE GOT INTO THE MANS BOOT & THE LIME & CHEMICAL REACTION OF THE CONCRETE CAUSED BURNS ONT HE LEGS.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO CLEAN OUT PUMP HEAD WITH AN AIR CHISEL. WHEN HE BROKE THROUGH, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A PRESSURE BUILD UP IN THE PUMP WHICH POPPED AND SHOT LIME INTO EMPLOYEES FACE AN D EYES. 3
EMPLOYEE WAS DO1ING DIRT WHEN HE HOOKED A BANK CAUSING HIS SEAT TO FLY FORWARD.SEAT WAS LOOSE AND EMPLOYEE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEATBELT AS INSTRUCTED.
INJURED EMPLOYE9 WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF RAM CAR CHECKING BATTERY AS THE CONTINUOUS MINER WAS MOVING BY HIM AND THE BOOM OF THE MINER PINNED HIM AGAINST THE RAM CAR BATTERY.
MAN WAS WALKING3FROM THE HYDRAULIC OIL PUMP STATION TO THE MASTER CONTROL FOR THE LONGWALL WHEN HE STEPPED ON AN OIL CRIB BLOCK AND FELL HURTING HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE REPORT9D THAT WHILE WALKING ALONG BESIDE HEAT DRYER HE STUMBLED OVER A FROZEN CLOD OF DIRT & TURNED/TWISTED HIS LEFT KNEE
EMP INHALED FUM9S FROM ACETYLEN TORCH USED TO CUT AN OBSOLETE BELT CONVEYOR BY A W ELDER EMP DEVELOPED NAUSEA AND HEADACHE FROM BREATHING FUMES
EMP WAS SHOVELI3G COAL FROM UNDERNEATH THE BELTLINE WHEN HE ENTANGLED THE SHOVEL IN THE BELTLINE CAUSING HIS RIGHT HAND TO BE PULLED INTO THE B ELTLINE. HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS FRACTURED
BALING BAGS ON 7HE 5 LB LINE AND SWITCHED TO THE 10 LB LINE AND THE WRIST STARTED SWELLING
EMPLOYEE WAS BA1GING MATERIAL AND REINJURED LEFT WRIST.
CHECKING THE EN1INE ON THE L OADER STEPPED ON THE LADDER FOOT SLIPPED ON ICE CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND
EMPL TRYING TO 8COOT ELECTRICAL COIL OUT OF THE WAY THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
AN EMPLOYEE WAS3SECURING TOP OF LADDER WITH A ROPE AND THE BOTTOM SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO THE GROUND FRACTURING RIGHT FIBULA.
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS TIGHTENING TURN BUCKLE AT TAKE UP ROLLER USING 15" WRENCH WHRN WRENCH SLIPPED LETTING HIM FALL,STRIKING RIGHT ARM AGAINST SOMETHING (NOT SURE WHAT HE STRUCK).EMPLOYEE SU STAINED DOUBLE 0RACTURE OF RIGHT ARM-ULNA AND RADIUS.
HOT SLAG FLEW I3TO RIGHT EYE.
MAN WAS DRIVING3JEEP PULLING ROCK DUSTER & RAN OVER A TIMBER IN THE SUPPLY THE BOLT BRUISED HIS RIGHT HIP & STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMP SIGNALED KR5NE KAR OPERATOR TO MOVE KRANE KAR BACK NOT REALIZING HE STILL HAD LEFT THUMB BETWEEN KRANE KAR BOOM AND BLOCK. PINCHED LEFT THUMB TIP
MOVING CABLE AN8 HURT KNEE-TWISTED.
EMPLOYEE TRIPPE8 AND GRABBED THE SIDE OF FEEDER TO KEEP FROM FALLING. HE INJURED HIS RIGHT HSOULXXX SHOULDER.
PICKING UP BAGS3OF ROCK DUST AND LOADING THEM ON THE SHUTTLE CAR, ONE AT A TIME AND HE FELT A PAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING MINER OPERATOR WHEN A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS STRIKING HIM.
WHILE CLEANING 2UT MINER PAN SO THAT CONVEYOR CHAIN COULD BE SPLICED I.NAME SLIPPED AND FELL HITTING HIS RIBS AGAINST THE MINER
I.NAME INSTALLE8 ROOF BOLT LOWERED CANOPY PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ON LEFT FOOT AND BROKE LITTLE TOE.
INJURED WAS STA3DING BESIDE THE FLETCHER ROOF DRILL WHILE A FELLOW WORKER WAS PUSHING OUT TIMBERS WITH THE TRS UNIT ON THE ROOF DRILL.WHEN ONE OF THE TIMBERS WAS PUSHED LOOSE IT ROLLED AROUND THE END OF THE 7RS UNIT AND FELL TOWARD INJURED.INJURED GRABBED THE TIMBER WITH HIS RIGHT ARM AND THE BOTH FELL TO THE FOOTWALL.
EMPLOYEE INFORM9D HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE WAS IN PAIN WITH HIS BACK AND COULD NOT CARRY SUPPLIES.
INJURED WAS REM2VING BOLTS TO BREAKER THE DOZER TRACK.FOR SOME REASON HE REMOVING THE TRACK BROKE FREE.IT FELL BACKWARDS AND INJURED COULD NOT GET HIS FOOT OUT OF THE WAY.HE STATED HE WAS WEAR ING SAFETY SHOE8 BUT THE FORCE OF THE FORCE OF THE BLOW FACTURED HIS TOE ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
TK STARTED MOVI3G & JUMPED FROM TK.
EE WAS SITTING 3N A S/C WAITING TO DUMP A LOAD OF COAL ON FEEDER. BRAKES ON ADJACENT CAR RELEASED. CAR ROLLED INTO SIDE OF I.NAMES CAR & PINNED HIM IN. BRUISED RT SHOULDER & RT FOOT.
DRIVING CAR WIT2 HAND ON TOP OF CANOPY HIT CROSSOVER & MASHED FINGERS
INJURED WAS WAL5ING FROM JEEP TO CHECK PUMP.HE STEPPED ON A WATERLINE AND STATED THAT HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LEFT KNEE.
EE WAS HELPING 7HANGE BELT ROOLER AT PREP PLANT. WHILE PLACING ROLLER IN HANGER HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3BRAKES FAILED WHILE DRIVING SHUTTLE CAR AND HE REVERESED POWER TO STOP SHUTTLE CAR CAUSING HIS BODY TO "JERK". HE IS CLAIMING PAIN IN NECK AND SHOULDER.
HE BENT OVER TO3PICK UP A FUEL HOSE AND NOZZLE AND STRAINED LOWER BACK, HIS CHOICE TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION FROM CHRIOPRACTOR INSTEAD OF MEDICAL DR BECAUSE OF THIS THERE IS A UNCERTAINTY OF W HETHER DAYS LOS7 IS OF A VALID NATURE
EMP WAS TRYING 7O DISLODGE DRAG SOCKET WEDGE BY DROPPING IT. IN THE PROCESS A PUNCH BEING USED AS A QUICK REALEASE PULLED OUT AND HIT HIM INJURING ELBOW
EMPL HELPING 4 2THER EMPL MOVE PILOT PLANT INTO MET LAB FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK SAW DR ON 12-29-86.
INSTALLING RESI3BOLTS DRILLED A HOLE WITH DRILL STEEL STEEL WAS HUNG PUT HEAD OA BASE OF STEEL TO PULL DOWN ON STEEL AND TO ROTATE HEAD DOWN BY OPERATOR UNIT UP LEFT INSTEAD OF THE DOWN LEVER CAUSING HEAD TO3CATCH HAND BETWEEN STEEL AND ROOF
HE BACKED A TRA7TOR INTO A PARKED RAM CAR
AT 10:15 PM THE31284 UNDERCUT,HAULAGE AND SUMP WERE BLASTED.AT 10:30 PM THE INJURED EMPLOYEE AND THE WITNESS,BOTH WEARING DUST MASKS,WENT DOWN TO THE BLAST AREA TO START A VENTILATION FAN WHIC H IS LOCATED AP1ROX.180' FROM THE BLAST SITE.THEY WERE BOTH EXPOSED TO BLAST SMOKE.TWO DAYS AFTER THE EXPOSURE,THE INJURED WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH ACUTE NON-INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA.
DOOR ON INTERNA7IONAL 400 SERIES C LOADER SLAMMED ON FINGERS OF LEFT HAND
EE STATED HE WA8 WALKING DOWN STEPS WHEN HE STEEPPED TO THE FLOOR HE STEPPED ON A BOLT TURNING HIS LEFT ANKLE & CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO T HE FLOOR. THE RESULTING INJURY WAS A SEVERLY SPRAINED A NKLE. 3
EMPLOYEE ATTEMP7ING TO UNCLOG ROCKS FROM CONVEYOR BELT HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIS HAND TO JAM DOWN INTO THE ROLLER COGS HIS 5TH FINGER ON HIS LEFT HAND WAS INJURED NEEDING STITCHES
I.NAME WENT TO 7HE OFFICE SATURDAY MORNING TO FINISH UP SOME OFFICE WORK FOR THE YEAR SHE GOT A FEW STEPS FROM HER CAR AND HER ANKLE GAVE OUT BECAUSE SHE STEPPED ON SOMETHING WRONG COULD HAVE BEEN A STONE OR3ICE IN THE FALL SHE HURT HER KNEE
WAS GETTING OFF3BELTLINE AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE
CAME OUT OF SC5LE HOUSE WENT DOWN STEPS 2 BOTTOM STEPS WERE MISSING EMPLOYEE FELL INJURING BACK
I,NAME WAS SETT3NG BREAKER TIMBERS AND ROCK FELL OUT OF TOP HITTING EMPLOYEE ON BACK; THEN SLID OFF BACK AND LANDED ON ANKLE.
3NW CONSTRUCTIO3 FUNCTIONING AS A LOADER OPERATOR, HE TRIPPED OVER A CARRIER DRAW BAR CAUSING HIM TO FALL. CONTINUED TO WORK BUT LATER FEL LT SOMETHING WARM ON LOWER R LEG AND DISCOVERED A WOUND ON RIGH7 SHIN AREA. CUT TREATED AND RELEASED AT THE MON GENERAL HOSPITAL
WHILE EE WAS IN3 AN AEKWARD POSITION DRILLING HOLES IN A DRYER, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK & COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN HIS SPINE.
EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING ROCK TRUCK & PASSED ANOTHER ROCK TRUCK FROM WHICH SOMETHING FLEW OUT OF BED & HIT HIS EYE
WORKING ON SHUT7LE CAR.HAD COVER TO S CAR CABLE REEL RAISED AND DIDNT SECURE IT TO PREVENT IT FROM FALLING.
WHILE ROOF BOLT3NG IN THE FACE AREA A PIECE OF LOOSE SCALE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING TRHE ROOF BOLT OPERATOR ON THE LEFT HAND.
PULLING ON MINE9 CABLE AND HURT HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING A RESIN CARTRIDGE IN A HOLE THAT HAD JUST BEEN DRILLED WHEN A SLAB OF ROCK FELL, STRICKING EMPLOYEE, FRACTURING VERTEBRAE, DAMAGED LIGAMENTS IN RIGHT KNEE, AND DISLOCAT ING LEFT SHOULD9R.
EMP WAS RIDING 3N BACK OF PICKUP TRUCK STEADYING SLURRY PIPE. TRUCK HIT BUMP WHICH BOUNCED HIM TO GROUND CRUSHING 5TH BERTABRAE
THE EE WAS GET7ING A CLINKER SAMPLE FORM THE DISCHARGE CHUTE OF #8 KILN & AS HE TURNED TO GO TO A SMALL CRUSHER ABOUT 10' AWAY HE LOST HIS BALANCE WHEN HE STEPPED ON LOOSE CLINKER ON T HE STEEL GRATING.3
EMP WAS STANDIN1 ON EDGE OF ROLLER CONVEYOR FRAME WHILE TRYING TO FREE A BAG THAT WAS JAMMED BETWEEN BELT CONVEYOR AND IDLER ROLLERS AS EMP WAS KICKING BAG WHICH WAS JAMMED, THE REJUCT CONVEYR STARTED TO RUN 5ND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES LEFT FOOT BETWEEN IT AND THE IDLER ROLLER, AND PULLED IT DOWN APPROX 8 TO 10 INCHES
WHEN A LARGE RO7K WAS DUMPED INTO THE BED OF HER HAULAGE TRUCK,THE ROCK'S IMPACT CAUSED EMPLOYEE'S HEAD AND NECK TO POP.EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN BACKWARDS AND FOREWARDS IN CAB.
HE WAS PALCING 5 WEAR RING OF A BILTER AGAINST THE WALL OF THE PLANT, IT STARTED TO FALL AND WHEN HE TRY TO STOP IT IT FELL ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
WHILE WALKING T2 DOZER, EMPLOYEE FELL ON ICE.
EMPL DISMOUNTIN1 824 GROUND TRACTOR WHEN HE LOST FOOTING CAUSING HIM TO FALL.
EMPLOYEE WAS M 5KING REPAIR TO LEFT SIDE OF D-3 DOZER, HE RECONGNIZED THE BACK UP HORN FROM NEAR BY WORKING 966 LOADER APPRACHING CLOSER TO THE MACHINE IN REPAIR. EMPLOYEE TURNED TO MOVE OUT O F THE WAY, BUT 9IGHT FOOT, BEHIND THE KNEE, AND UPPER THIGH GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN TRACK OF D-3 AND REAR LEFT TIRE OF LOADER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING ALONG HEADGATE DRIVE-RIB FELL ON UPPER LEFT LEG.
SUBJECT WAS WAL5ING ON A 2" X 8" PLANK TO GET TO A SLURRY LINE VALVE. HE SLIPPED AND FELL LANDING ON HIS TAILBONE ON THE CONCRETE STEPS NEARBY. SUBJECT WAS HURRYING AND THERE WAS OIL ON THE PL ANK FROM A RUPT6RED HYDRAULIC LINE.
INJURED WAS STR6CK BY PIECE OF ROCK FROM LOADING MACHINE CONVEYOR BOOM CHAIN
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING ON LADDER ABOUT 12 FT. HIGH FIXING PIPELINE IN THE MILL.LADDER SLIPPED ON THE CEMENT FLOOR AND EMPLOYEE FELL,HITTING HIS CHEST ON PIPES BELOW HIM.
EMP WAS NOT WAT7HING WHER HE WAS GOING AND RAISED HIS HEAD INTO A CROSSBAR WHILE RIDING OUT OF THE MINE ON THE BELT
HE CLAIMS THAT 4HILE HE WAS LUBRICATING THE ENTRANCE BEARING OF MILL #2 WHEN HE CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER OFF THE BASE OF MILL #2 HE SLIPPED IN THE CLINKER FELL DOWN AND HURT THE LOWER PART OF H IS BACK 3
STEPPING OUT OF3ROWBOAT SLIPPED ON BANK AND FELL ON LEFT SHOULDER.BRUISED SHOULDER & SUFFERED SUBLUXATION OF 6TH CERVICAL BERTEGBRA PER CHIRPRATOR.
EMPLOYEE WAS BE3T OVER LIFTING AN EXTENSION LADDER WHEN HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK
MOVING FROZEN P3ECE OF MATERIAL HE CAUGHT WRIST BETWEEN CONVEYOR SUPPORT STEEL AND FROZEN PIECE OF MATERIAL HURTING HIS WRIST
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3WHILE ALIGNING BVELT ON SPLICE TABLE IT SHIFTED, KNOCKING HIM TO GROUND.
GOT DUST IN EYE3WHILE DRILLING
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING ON A LADDER SECURING HIMSELF WITH HIS LEFT HAND ON SUPERSCALPER WHEN NAMED WITNESS HANDED HIM A 5 GAL BUCKET OF CONRETE UP HE COULD NOT HANDLE IT WITH ONE HAND & HE SET I T ON THE SCALPE9 AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE IN SO DOING HE SET THE BUCKET ON HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER RESULTING IN TORNED CARTILAGE & LIGAMENTS
I NAME SAID HE 8LIPPED OFF THE TRACKS AS HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM DOZER. HE SAID THE TRACKS WER CAKED WITH MUD. HE IS COMPLAINING OF BACK SPAIN.
BLOCKING KICKED3OUT AND STRUCK LEFT ARM WHEN INSTALLING DIFFERENTIAL IN PAYLOADER.
WAS COMING FROM3#2 DRIVE TO HEAD AND SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF BELTING.
EMPLOYEE WAS AS8ISSTING A LOADER-OPERATOR IN PLACING A DRILL STEEL IN THE PROPER POSITION ON A INGERSOLL RAND DRILL.WHEN THE DRILL STEEL APPEARED TO BE IN THE PROPER POSITION, EMPLOYEE INSTRUC TED THE LOADER-2PERATOR TO RELEASE TENSION ON THE DRILL STEEL.WHEN RELIEVING TENSION ON THE DRILL STEEL,IT MOVED,STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON RIGHT SIDE OF BODY.
EMPLOYEE WAS CA9RYING A LOG ACROSS THE YARD
EMP TURNED FROM3TALKING TO WITNESS AND TRIPPED OVER AN AIR TUGGER LANDED ON R SHOULDER CAUSING A BRUISE
STANDING ON A 5ADDER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO TAKE THE WEDGE OUT OF CABLE AND REWIND IT, THE LADDER WAS CAUGHT IN THE COUNTER WEIGHT.
EMPL STEPPING F9OM PUSH ARM UP ONTO TRACK OF DOZER.RIGHT LEG SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND AS HE WAS REACHING FOR GRAB HANDLE,HE STRUCK RIGHT HAND ON DOZER TRACK.
HE WAS OPERATIN1 A VERTICAL DRILL APPR.8FT FROM EDGE OF A 25FT HIGHWALL BENCH WHEN HIS OUTRIGGER SUNK IN DUE TO A CRACK & DRILL UNIT TILTED & HE JUMPED OFF OF IT & SAID HE HURT HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE BRUISE8 KNEE ON BOTTOM.
WHILE CHECKING 7URTAINS AND FACES PRIOR TO STARTING FIREBOSS RUN, SLIPPED NEXT TO CURTAIN SIDE OF HEADING AND STRUCK LEFT KNEE AGAINST MINE FLOOR
EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 WHILE HOLDING UP CONVEYOR BELT AND BELT FORCED HIM TO HIS KNEES TWISTING HIS RIGHT KNEE IN THE PROCESS. EMPLOYEE KEPT WORKING FOR WEEKS BEFORE SCHEDULING SURGERY.
HE WAS GREASING3THE BEARING ON THE FAN WHEN HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE BLADES INJURING HIS HAND.
UNIT 002 MINER 2AD LEFT HAND ABOVE FLANGE ON PINNER STEEL AND PINNER CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN ROOF AND FLANGE
LIFTING HYDRAUL3C TAKE UP CYCLINDER AND CYCLINDER SLIPPED AND CAME DOWN ON EMPLOYEES RT LEG
MAN WAS WORKING3ON AERIAL TRAM TRIPPER UNIT AT INTERMEDIATE TOWER WHEN A SHEAVE SLIDING DOWN THE HAUL ROPE CAUSED HIM TO FALL ABOUT 120 FT. CAUSING BROKEN ANKLES(BOTH), BROKEN RIBS,PUNCTURED L UNG, PUNCTURED 8IAPHRAGM, FRACTURED SKULL, CONTUSED BRAIN.
I NAME WAS BOLT3NG WHEN A PIECE OF COAL FELL FROM THE RIB AND HIT HIM IN THE BACK
INJURED WAS SHO5ELING AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS HO2KING UP PULLING CABLE IN SHEAVE WHEEL TO PULL CONVEYOR BELT ON CONVEYOR THAT WAS DOWN FOR ADVANCEMENT, EITHER SLIPPED OR TRIPPED AND FELL APPROX. 3 FEET.
REACHED OVER TO3MOVE CABLE HURT MUSCLE IN STOMACH.,
LIFTING SHOVEL 9IMMER,FELT SHARP PAIN.
EMP WAS NOT SUR9 WHAT HAPPENED, BUT WHILE UNLOADING SUPPLIES IN #2 UNIT HE STEPPED IN HOLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS BACK CAUSING STRAIN TO LOWER BACK. REOCURRANCE OF BACK INJURY FROM 11-22-85
INJURED WAS INS1ECTING SEALS & STEPPED ON A BROKEN CINDER BLOCK TWISTING HIS ANKLE.
EMP PLACED SHOV9L INSIDE BELT INCOMING IN CONTACT WITH ROLLER RESULTING IN A TORN BICEP TENDON ON RIGHT ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING CRIB BLOCKS AND WOODEN POSTS INTO THE BUCKET OF AN END LOADER SMASHED LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BETWEEN POST AND BUCKET OF END LOADER. FINGER WAS FRACTURED.
EMPLOYEE PUT ON3THE CLIMBING HOOKS TO CLIMB A WOOD POWER CABLE ARCH POLE TO PUT THE STEEL CABLE BACK INTO THE SHEAVE. ON HIS WAY DOWN THE POLE ABOUT 15 FT FROM THE BOTTOM ONE OF HIS SPIKES LET GO FROM THE PO5E AND HE SLID IN HIS SAFETY BERLXXX BELT. THE POLE WAS IN GOOD CONDITION AND ALSO WERE HIS SPIKES.
EMPLOYEE WAS CH5NGING AGITATOR SHAFT BUSHINGS IN SWENSON PAN. HE WAS STANDING ON THE BOTTOM SPIDER AND LOOSENED BOTTOM SHAFT CLAMP. BOLTS MISSING FROM THE SHAFT COUPLING ALLOWED THE SHAFT TO FALL, MASHING 2IS FOOT BETWEEN THE TOP SHAFT CLAMP AND THE SPIDER.
STEPPED IN MUD 2OLE AND TWISTED LEFT ANKLE CHECKING SAFETY LINE ALONG MAIN NORTH BELT.HAS RELEASE FOR 1-5-87 WHICH HE GOT FROM DR BEFORE 12-29-86.WE FEEL THIS MAN COULD HAVE RETURNED SOONER BU T DR WAS LENIEN7 DUE TO HOLIDAYS.
EMPLOYEE WAS RO2F BOLTING IN A CONSTRUCTION AREA. EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES AND USING A SCHROLL AUGER BECAUSE OF WET ANDMUDDY CONDITIONS. WHILE ALIGNING AUGER TO START HOLE EMPLOYEES GLOVES STUCK T2 HOT DRILL STEEL AND TWISTED WRIST.
HE WAS REMOVING31 1/2" NYLON ROPE FROM TIMBER HEAD WHEN ROPE SLIPPED & THE UP PRESSURE FORM THE 3/4" CABLE CAUGHT HIM UNDER CHIN RESULTING IN A BROKEN JAW.
STEPPED IN HOLE3ON JOB.
PULLING COUNTER3WEIGHT IT CAME LOOSE AND PINNED EMPLOYEE BETWEEN COUNTERWEIGHT AND TRACK
HE WAS GETTING 2UT OF HIS TRUCK AND MISSED A STEP AND STRAINED HIS BACK. EFORE RETURNING3TO WORK.
AS EMPLOYEE STE1PED OFF A JUMBO DRILL HE STEPPED ON A ROCK AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN A SPRAIN ON RT ANKLE CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME
GRINDING, WELDI3G, PIECE OF STEEL FLEW INTO EMPLOYEES EYE.
STANDING ON TEM1 SUPPORT WO WELD WHEN SUPPORT AB%*%*% ANGLE WELD BROKE CAUSING SUPPORT TO GIVE WAY & INJURED TO FALL.
EMP STATED HE W5S DISMOUNTING TRUCK AT PREP PLANT HE STEPPED OUT OF THE TRUCK ON TO FROZEN GROUND HIS FOOT WENT IN A RUT AND HE SPRAINED HIS R ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS CL3MBING DOWN OFF OF A RAILCAR,SLIPPED AND FELL TO THE GROUND.
EE WAS STACKING3IDLER PULLEYS THE STACK SLIPPED & AN IDLER ROLLED ONTO THE INSIDE OF HIS L FOOT.
LOADER CAUGHT F3RE OPERATOR JUMPED OFF
EE ALLEGES HE W5S PULLING RAILS OUT OF 2 RT SEC STIFF. EE DID NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHEN PAIN STARTED.
MOVING POWER CE3TER WITH BAR INJURY TO BACK AND NECK.
BURNS OF PELVIC3AREA WHILE WEDLING
I.NAME WAS HELP3NG SHIFT BELT STRUCTURE TO ALIGN IT WHEN I.NAME LIFTED ON THE STRUCTURE HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
I.NAME WAS MOUN7ING HIS GRADER WHEN HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK, HE STATED HE TWISTED SLIGHTLY WHILE MOUNTING HIS GRADER AND IMMEDIATELY FELT PAIN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDER BLADES
EE WAS GUIDING 7ONVERTER INTO POSITION WITH HIS FEET AN EYE BOLT BROKE LEAVING EE WITH TCONVERTER BETWEEN FEET & FRAME OF EUCLID FOR 15-20 MINUTES.
INJURED WAS PLA7ING SHEET METAL IN A STORAGE RACK WHILE HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND STRUCK HIS LEFT ELBOW AGAINST A PIECE OF METAL
INJURED CLAIMS 2E WAS WALKING ON WET FLOOR IN PIT DRY WHEN HE SLIPPED AND REINJURED HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE FELT P5IN IN BACK WHILE BARRING ROCK OUT OF COAL HOPPER.
EMPL OPERATING 7AMROCK DRILL MOVING IT FROM ONE HOLE TO ANOTHER.DRILL MOVED OVER MOUND OF ROCK IT PITCHED FORWARD,HE JUMPED OFF PLATFORM AND WRENCHED HIS BACK.
EMP LEANED OVER2 PICKED UP A 27-POUND JACKHAMMER, AND SWUNG IT UP TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. AS HE DID THIS, HE FELT A STABBING PAIN IN HIS RIGHT TESTIS
REPAIRING THE D3SCHARGE PUMP, HE ATTEMPTED TO CLOSE A VALVE AND INJURED HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE WAS IN A STANDING POSTION, PULLING ON A ROPE TO CLOSE THE GATE AT THE LOAD-OUT BINS WHEN THE ROPE BROKE AND HE FELL BACK ON HIS RIGHT LEG, BREAKING IT.
HOLDING ONTO SM5LL DOOR OF COAL MILL WHILE MOVING DOOR CAME OPEN AND EMPLOYEE STRAINED NECK WHILE TRYING TO REGAIN BALANCE
WORKING ON THE 7HAIN ON THE COAL ELEVATOR AND PULLED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER BACK
100 LB BAGS TRA5EL UP CONVEYOR BELT TO AUTO PALLETIZER TO BE PLACED AND STACKED ON PALLET.A BAG WAS BROKEN AND I.NAME LIFTED BAG TO THROW IT OFF.
EMP WAS DRIVING3A FORKLIFT AND STACKING PALLETS OF BAGGED LIMESTONE IN A WAREHOUSE WHEN SOME DUST BLEW IN HIS FACE AND EMBEDDED A SAMLL FOREIGN OBJECT IN RIGHT EYE
I.NAME WAS REMO5ING CURTAIN OUT FROM UNDER ROOF BOLTER ON THE OFF SIDE, HE POSITIONED HIMSELF IN FROM OF REAR TIRE OF MACHINE. THE REAR TIRE RAN OVER LEFT FOOT. EE W ORKED AT FULL CAPACITY ON 12-22-86 B6T DUE TO SORENESS WAS ABSENT 6 DAYS.
INJURED WAS TRY3NG TO MOVE MOTOR IN THE POLE BRAKE WHEN HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK.
I.NAME WAS HANG3NG CURTAIN ASSISTED BY I.NAME SECTION FOREMAN WHEN THE RIB GAVE WAY COVERING HIM COMPLETELY
TRAMMING LOADER3BACK TO FACE IN STOPING AREA STRUCK HEAD AGAINST VENT.TUBE CAUSING CHIP FX OF POSTERIOR PROCESS OF 6TH CERVICAL VERTEBRAE.
EMPLOYEE WAS L3FTING A MINER CABLE OFF OF THE MINER HEAD IN PREPARATION TO MOVE THE MINER OUT OF THE WAY OF THE BOLTER HE SAID WHEN HE LIFTED THE CABLE HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK
VICTIM WAS HELP3NG A PINNER & REACHED & GRABBED DRILL STEEL & HAD RUBBER GLOVES ON & THEY STUCK TO S TEEL THEREFORE TWISTED HAND & RIPPED GLOVE OFF OF LEFT HAND BREAKING LITTLE FINGER.
WHILE WALKING A3PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON THE INJUREDS LEFT ANKLE THE DRAW ROCK FELL FROM BETWEEN ROOF BOLTS ON 4 FT CENTERS
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 WELDING LINERS IN THE EAST TRUCK HOPPER WHEN A ROCK ROLLED FROM THE EDGE OF THE HOPPER. THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK ON THE RT SIDE OF HIS HEAD JUST BELOW HIS EYE. HE RECEIVED A T RIPED FRACTURE 7O HIS CHECK BONE AND SOME SMALL LACERATION ONHIS LEFT EAR ON WHICH HE FELL AGAINST. A LARGE WELT DEVELOPED BELOW HIS RT EYE.
EMPLOYEE FINISH9D TORQUING BOLT AND RETURNED TO THE BACK OF THE BOOM. A PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING THE TOOL TRAY AND FALLING ON HIS LEG. SUFFERED BROKEN LEG.
MAN STEPED ON A3LUMP OF COAL AND TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE RESULTING IN A FRACTURE.
I.NAME WAS BUMP9D BY ROOF BOLTER AT CURTAIN WHILE OPERATING SURVEY TRANSIT.
ROCK FLEW OUT F9OM UNDER A TIRE AND HIT LEFT ANKLE AND FOOT.
HE WAS STANDIN1 OFF TO THE SIDE, CLEANING THE SURFACE OF A MANGANESE CRUSHER, MANTLE LINER WHEN IT FELL AND HIT SOME WOOD CRIBBING AND FLIPPED OVER AND STRUCK HIS LEG.
HE WAS OPERATIN1 A SCRAPER WHEN HE WENT OVER ROUGH GROUND AND JARRED HIS BACK HE SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED GRADUAL LOW BACK PAIN. THIS INJURY BECAME REPORTABLE 12 23 86
MACHANIC SUPERV3SOR WAS STEPPING DOWN FROM DOZER & LOST HIS FOOTING. HE FELL TO GROUND DISLOCATING HIS ELFT SHOULDER.
CLEANING FEEDER3 WHILE CLEANING 0EEDER ROCK FELL OFF SLOPE & HIT I.NAME ON HAND RESULTING IN FX OF RT HAND
CHANGING DRILL 2EAD ON ROOF BOLTER WHEN LIFTING ON DRILL HEAD PULLED LIGAMENT IN LOWER BACK
UNDER TRUCK ADJ6STING CLUTCH. PIECE OF SHALE-DIRT BROKE LOOD WENT INTO EYE.
EMP WAS OPERATI3G A LOCOMOTIVE WHEN THE TROLLEY POLE JUMPED OFF THE WIRE AND BROKE HE A TTEMPTED TO STOP THE MOTOR BUT COULD NOT CLAIMING THE BRAKE WAS INOPERATIVE HE TRIED TO STOP THE MOTOR A AND WHEN HE OBS9RVED A DERAIL ,DEAD LATCH, AHEAD HE JUMPED OFF NOTE-INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE BRAKE WAS OPERATIONAL EMP MUST HAVE PANICKED AND WOUND BRAKE OPEN(AS FOUND) RATHER THAN CLOSED
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING IN SHOP ON SURFACE. REMOVING WHEELS OFF SUPPLY CARS, USING A UNCH AND HAMMER TO DRIVE OUT BOLTS A PIECE OF METAL FROM THE PUNCH HIT THE BACK OF LEFT HAND.
EMP WAS STRUCK 3N BOTH KNEES BYA MINE CAR JENNY THIS RESULTED IN ABRASIONS AND CONTUSIONS MINE CAR DERAILED AS EMP WAS STANDING ALONG SIDE, OBSERVING THE COUPLING OF TWO MINE CARS. ACCIDENT AR AREA WAS JUST I3BY THE 12 NORTH MAINLINE SWITCH
EE STATED THAT 2E WAS WEDGING A BRATTICE WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION IN THE LOWER PART OF HIS BACK.
MAN SAID HE WAS3LIFTING THE WHEEL LIFTING LEVER OF A SUPPLY TRAILOR SO A SCOOP COULD MOVE IT AND HE LOST HIS GRIP AND THE WHEEL DROPPED CATCHING HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER BETWEEN THE LEVER AND WH EEL FRACTURING 3T.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING ON A CABLE REEL EMPLOYEE WAS KNEELING DOWN AND WHEN HE GOT UP HIS LEFT KNEE LOCKED UP ON HIM
EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OUT OF MINER WHEN ROCK FELL FROM ROOF HITTING EMPLOYEE ON THE RT SHOULDER AND RT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING BELTLINE COAL SPILLAGE AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
SHOVELING LOOSE3COAL AT TAILPIECE ON SECTION.WHEN LIFTING SHOVEL OF LOOSE COAL UP TO PUT ON FEEDER,PULLED MUSCLE OR LIGAMENT IN BACK.
THE MAN WAS OP9RATING A LOCOMOTIVE ON 4 EAST HE HILL WHEN THE MOTOR STARTED TO PICK UP SPEED HE TRIED TO BRING THE MOTOR TO A SLOWER SPEED BY USING THE DIFFERENT BRAKING SYSTEMS HE COULD NOT GET THE MOTOR 7O SLOW DOWN AND JUMPED OFF THE MACHINE
HE WAS SETTING 4ACK FOR ROOF BOLTER AND A SLUG OF CAP COAL ABOUT 3X3 4 INCH THICK FELL AND CAUGHT LOWER CENTER OF BACK AND RIBS.
I NAME WAS LOAD3NG A COAL DRILL AXLE IT SLID OFF AND HE GRABBED AXLE TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING AND INJURING HIS BACK
RECOURRENCE OF 3NJURY ON 12-11-86. EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING ROOF BOLTER AT THE FACE A ROCK FELL STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON FOWER LUMBAR RESION OF BACK.
FOUR EMPLOYEES 4ERE INSTALLING REVERSE SPRIAL IN DISCHARGE END OF BALL MILL. THERE WAS A LONG CABLE ON THE HOOK, A SHACKLE THAN A CABLE LOOPED THOUGH A HOLE IN THE SPIRAL EXTENSION WHICH WAS B EING INSTALLED.3 AS THE CRANE WAS RAISED THE CABLE SNAPPED. THE CABLE WITH THE SHAKLE SWUNG UP IN THE AIR ON THE WAY DOWN HIT HIM ON THE RING FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND.
CARRYING TIMBER3IN STOOPED POSITION CAUSING STRAIN BACK.
I,NAME WAS WORK3NG ON TRUSS BOLTER CABLE. CAR CABLE WAS ANCHORED BEHIND HIM CAR AME THROUGH CXG PICKED UP SLACK CABLE HITTING HIM ON LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE HAD CL3MBED UP LATER OF BOX CAR TO SEE IF CAR WAS CLEAN, STARTED BACK DOWN WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON LATTER AND FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS LEFT KNEE.
WHILE SHOVELING3ALONG THE BELT, HE FELT PAIN IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE TRIED TO WALK AND THE PAIN GOT WORSE.
EMPLOYEE STATED3WHILE STRAIGHTENING BENDING A STOPPING PANEL HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS MOVING STEEL LEGS TO BUILD A CEMENT BLOCK TAPPING AS HE WAS MOVING A STEEL LEG HE BUMPED HIS RIGHT KNEE ON THE LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING AND STRUCK HEAD ON ROOF LEDGE, JAMMING NECK.
I.NAME WAS WALK3NG ALONG FENCE LINE TOWARDS PONT TO MEASURE WATER LEVEL WHEN A TREE LIMB CAUGHT HIM IN FACE STRIKING HIS LEFT EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS (O5ERSEEING) REPAIRING A BENT SHAFT ON ROCK CRUSHER. THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO STRAIGHTEN SHAFT WITH A PORTA POWER MACHINE. WHICH HE HAD BOLTED TO THE SHAFT. DURING THIS PROCESS THE BOLT BROKE AND 8TRUCK EMPLOYEE IN THE EYE. HE WAS STANDING APPX. 19' AWAY WHEN HE WAS INJURED.
EE WAS LIFTING 5 HEAVY HOSE ONTO A TRUCK WHEN HE FELT A PRESSURE ON HIS RT WRIST.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 PUSHING HIS TOOL BOX MOUNTED ON CASTERS ACROSS THE SHOP FLOOR. A WHEEL GOT CAUGHT IN THE FLOOR AND AS H E EXCERTED MORE PRESSURE TO FREE THE BOX HE FELL ON HIS LEFT SHOULDER.
SWINIGING FROM 5 BIN TO A POSTION TO OPEN THE BIN FOR DUMPING.
THE EMPLOYEE ST5TES THAT AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT AN 18 FT STEEL RAIL HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A ROLL OF BLET ROPE WHEN HE HAD PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE STATES3THAT SHE WAS ROOF BOLTING WHEN A PIECE OF TOP 2X2X2 FELL OUT FROM BETWEEN THE ROLT BOLTS AND LANDED ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD, GIVING HER A HEADACH.
WHILE EMPLOYEE 4AS PULLING PLATE UNDER THE CHUTE HE TWISTED HIS BACK.
HE WAS WRAPPING3PALLETS & LIFTED A ROLL OF WRAP ONTO HOIST PLATFORM BY HIMSELF INJURING HIS RIBS ON LEFT SIDE.
I NAME FORGOT T2 PUSH THE OFF BUTTON ON THE LANCE HE WAS TIGHTENING A NOZZLE ON THE END OF THE LANCE AND JERKED IT BACKWARDS AND ENDGAGED THE TRIPPER WHICH STARTED THE LANCE MOVING.IT PINNED H IS FINGER IN TH9 CHANNEL.LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS FRACTURED NOTHING ELSE.
EMP WAS LOADING3STEEL BEAMS AND D SAID HE EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HIS BACK
GOT INTO HIS RI1HT EYE
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 STANDING UPRIGHT BETWEEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND THE SCOOP WHICH WAS BEING USED TO MANEUVER THE MINER GEAR CASE INTO POSITION. THE INJURED TOLD THE SCOOP OPERATOR TO TRAM FOR WARD WHEN THE S7OOP BUCKET UNEXPECTEDLY CAUGHT THE INJURED'S LEFT FOOT BETWEEN SCOOP BUCKET AND MINE FLOOR.
MAN WAS WALKING3DOWN THE CHOCKLINE, UNDER THE MAIN CANOPIES. A PIECE OF ROOF ROCK FELL, STRIKING HIM ON THE LEFT HAND
EMPL OPERATING 6OBCAT LOADER.LOADER QUIT,GOT OUT TO JUMP-START IT.WHEN ENTERING LOADER,FOOT HIT BUCKET LEVER LIFTING BUCKET ON LEG.
INJURED HAD BEE3 CLOSING UNDERSIDE DOORS ON CENMENT BULK RAILROAD CARS WITH A 1 1/2 IN STEEL BAR VIA A RATCHET AND TAPPING AGAINST THE TAIL EDGE OF THE SLIDE GATE WHILE LAYING ON HIS BACK ON GROUND WHEN WA5KING AWAY HE FELT A TWINGE BETWEEN HIS SHOULER BLADES AS HE WALKED BACK TO THE SHIPPING OFFICE
ON 3-7-85 EMPLO2EE WAS HAULING A PUMP IN AN OPEN TRUCK AND HAD NOT SECURED THE MOTOR MOTOR MOVED TO THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK AND CAUSED THE TRUCK TO TURN OVER THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED AN ACUTE LUMBA R SPRAIN THIS I3CIDENT OF 12-18-86 IS AN AGGRAVATION OF THE ORIGINAL
I NAME WAS ATTE4PTING TO SIT DOWN IN ROOF BOLTER AND HE FELL
EMPLOYEE WAS WA8HING WINDSHIELD STANDING ON SNOWY ICY DECK. HE SLIPPED ON THE SLIPPERY DECK AND FELL TO THE GROUND CATCHING HIMSELF WITH THE LEFT HAND. HIS WRIST WAS FRACTURED WHEN HE CAUGHT H HIMSELF. 3
I NAME WAS UNHO2KING BLOCK IN FRONT TRUCK WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO GET OF TRUCK HE FORGOT THAT WAS A ON TRUCK THAT DID NOT HAVE A LADDER. HE STEPPED DOWN FOR LADDER AND FELL TO GROUND.
PATIENT LOOSENI3G BOLTS OR CONVEYOR BELT & SHOVELING DIRT FOLLOWING DAY OF ACCIDENT & EXPERIENCING PAIN IN UNIBILICAL REGION.
TWO EMPLOYEES W9RE REMOVING A HOPPER COVER IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE HOPPER. EACH EMPLOYEE WAS AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE COVER AS THEY BEGAN TO LIFT IT OFF. AS THE COVER SLID DOWNWARD, THEY LOST CO NTROL OF IT AND3THE COVER STRUCK I NAME ON HIS FOOT.
EMPL CHANGING B3T ON DRILL STEEL WHEN OTHER ROOF BOLTER OPERATOR TRAMMED BOLTING MACHINE ONTO RIGHT FOOT.
THE CONVEYOR ST2PPED RUNNING SO EMPLOYEE WENT TO CHECK THE FUSE BOX SOMETHING CAUSED THE FUSE BOX TO BLOW UP AS IT BLEW UP EMPLOYEE TRIED TO COVER FACE WITH HANDS
CUTTING WITH CU7TING TORCH.THE HOSE WAS EVENTUALLY? FAULTY.THE HOSE B ELOW HAND CAUGHT FIRE AND BURNED SMALL PLACE BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
EMPLOYEE STATED3WHILE SLIDING METAL STRAPS ONTO RBM HE WAS CAUGHT BY PR E-DRILLED H OLE IN STRAP WHICH CUT HIS FINGER AS THE STRAP SLID ONTO BOLT ER
VICTIM HAD BEEN3ASSIGNED THE TASK OF REPLACING A MISSING GRAB BAR ON A CAT D9L DOZER. AS THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO MOUNT THE DOZER TO WELD THE BRAG BAR HE EXPERIENCED A SUDDEN PAIN IN HIS LEF T LEG. X-RAYS &3 MEDICAL EXAMINATION LATER REVEALED THAT THE VICTIM HAD EXPERIENCED A SLIPPED DISC IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A WORN BIT HOLDER FROM CUTTER DRUM OF CONTINOUS MINER PIECE OF STEEL BROEK FROM BIT HOLDER AND STRUCK HIS RT LEG ABOVE THE KNEE AND EMBEDDED IN HIS LEG
WHILE OPERATING3CM INJURED GOT OFF MACHINE TO HUNHOOK.ROPE USED TO PULL MINER CABLE.AS HE DID THIS A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT BETWEEN RIB AND BOLTS STRIKING INJ ON RIGHT SHOULDER.
I NAME WAS STAN8ING WITHOUT A SAFETY BELT ON A WALK BOARD APPROX. 25 FT. FROM THE GROUND.HE WAS CLEANING A PIPE WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER WHEN HE MISSED THE PIPE,LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL.
THE EE WAS OPER5TING A GRADEALL CLEANING R/R TRACKS. HE S TARTED TO STEP OFF THE EQUIPMENT & H IS FOOT SLIPPED & HE FELL & BRUISED RIGHT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING SLIMY MATERIAL FROM PIT IN WASH BAY CAUSING PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS TH9OWING MINER CABLE OUT OF ROADWAY, AS HE STARTED TO RAISE AS A PIECE OF DRAWROCK FELL AND HIT HIM ACROSS THE BACK.
EMPLOYEE STAED 2E WAS TRAMMING MINER AND TWISTED KNEE WHILE WALKING
I.NAME WAS TAKI3G DRYING TRAY DOWN FROM TOP RACK NEAREST DOOR ON EAST SIDE OF THE DRYING SHE WAS STANDING ON A 4 LEGGED STOOL AS SHE REMOVED THE TRAY SHE SHIFTED HER WEIGHT IT MOVED CAUSING H ER TO LOSE HER 6ALANCE AND FALL OFF THE STOOL SHE FELL TO THE FLOOR HURTING HER RT ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS PU7TING A CONVEYOR CHAIN TOGETHER ON MINER WHEN THE HAMMER HE WAS USING GLANCED AND HIT HIM ON THE LEFT FOOT CAUSING A BRUISED FOOT,FOR WHICH PAIN PILLS WERE PRESCRIBED.
INJ HAD STEPPED3THROUGH A STOPPING MANDOOR AND WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF A BANK WHEN HE STEPPED ON A CHUNK OF COAL CAUSING HIM TO TURN HIS LEFT ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING IN THE MANINT. SHOP, REBUILDING A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER FOR A FE LOADER, AND BENT OVER TO PICKUP A SCREWDRIVER ON THE FLOOR TO USE, AND APPARENTLY TWISTED HIS BACK JUST RIGHT AND HAD A VERY 8HARP PAIN IN HIS BACK, WENT TO DR. LATER IN THE MORNING. DR. DIAGNOSED AS BACK SPRAIN, PRESCRIBED MUSCLE RELAXER, OFF WORK AND TO BED TO ASSIST RECOVERY FROM INJURY, UNTIL NEX
FELL 3 FEET OF 1RATE AND HIT BACK ON ROCK
INJURED TWISTED3HIS KNEE WHILE STEPPING OFF OF A 36" CONVEYOR BELT.
TIGHTENING CONV9YOR BELT - WRENCH SLIPS OFF AND WRIST WAS HIT ON THE CAGE SUROUNDING THE CONVRYOR
EMPLOYEE WAS PU5LING SCREW FLITES OUT OF SCREW BOX AT PHS-34 NEXT TO SILO 40 PULLED DOWN ON SCREW LIFTER AND STRAINED RT ARM AND SHOULDER
WAS PREPARING T2 DRILL HOLE IN 6 TO 7 BRK. SMALL PICE OF ROCK HIT FINGER ON L HAND
EMPLOYEE WHILE 5PPLYING BELT DRESSING TO CONVEYOR BELT STUCK HIS HAND INTO HEAD PULLEY OF CONVEUOR HIS HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN PULLEY AND BELT RESULTING IN FRACTURE OF LEFT THUMB
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING TO MANTRIP PRIOR TO START OF HISSHIFT SLIPPED ON WET GROUND FELL AGAINST SUPPLY CAR
EMP WAS SPLICIN1 A #2 BELT LINE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CUT BELT WITH KNIFE IT SLIPPED THEREFORE CUTTING EMPLOYEES PALM OF LEFT HAND
CHECKING INCOMI3G POWER TO 50 AMP SWITCH BOX WHEN VOLT METER GROUNDED OUT.
THE INJURED WAS3OPERATING A SHUTTLE CAR WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL A SCOOP WITH A CHAIN WHEN THE CHAIN BROKE AND STRUCK THE INJURED IN THE FACE AND HEAD.
INJURED WAS WAL5ING UNDER A CONDUIT HIT HIS HEAD ON CONDUIT & F ELL BACKWARD ON STEEL BEAM & INJURED RIGHT HIP & ANKLE.
55 GALLON DRUM 7RUSHED TOE.
EMPLOYEE WAS TR5MMING THE ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE HEARD HIS KNEE POP HE THEN BEGAN NOTICING PAIN IN HIS RIGHT KNEE.
WHILE DUMPING O3L DURMS FROM A PALLET ON A FORKLIFT HE HAD HIS R HAND ON THE BRACE IN FRONT OF FORKLIFT. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO TILT THE FORKLIFT FORK DOWN BUT ACCIDENTLY MOVED THE S IDE SLIDE LEVER3AND HIS FINGERS GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN FORKS AND FORK BRACE
CHIP OF STEEL B5EW OFF OF SIDING AND INTO LEFT EYE.
HE WAS MOVING A3 OXYGEN CYLINDER WHEN FELT PAIN IN KNEE AND BACK.
INSTALLING HOSE3PICKED UP HOSE SLIVER OF STEEL WENT IN LEFT RING FINGER.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING DUST AND BRICK FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE KILN, FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
STRAIN BACK WHI5E OPERATING MINER.
INJURED WAS EXT9ACTING CHOCK WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL OFF ANOTHER CANOPY CATCHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN ROCK AND TRAMMING CONTROL.
INJURED BACK WH3LE LIFTING ELECTRIC HEATER.
EMP WAS TRYING 7O GET PRECIPITATOR C-4 TO PUMP. HE HAD TO PUMP CAUSTIC FROM #1 TRAY THROUGH THE WATER LINE THROUGH #2 PUMP-OVER AND PUMP DOWN THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF PREC. C-4. HE WAS ON THE TOP FLOOR LINING UP3WHILE I.NAME AND I.NAME WERE ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR LINING UP THE #2 PUMP-OVER PUMP. THEY WERE TALKING TO EMPLOYEE ON THE RADIO AND DECIDED IT HAD ENOUGH CAUSTIC BACK INTO IT. HE
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING SCALE THAT HAD FORMED UNDER LINER PLATE THAT HAD BEEN CUT OUT OF HOPPER. EMPLOYEE WAS USING A SAFETY LINE AND BELT AS HE WORKED BUT THE SAFETY LINE CAME APART AND HE FELL ABOUT 5 FT. 3
SUBJECT WAS CLI4BING A STEEL/VERTICAL LADDER TO GET TO A SMALL DUST COLLECTOR TO PERFORM MAINTENANCE. AS HE STEPPED UP TO THE LAST RUNG HIS FOOT MISSED THE RUNG AND HE SLIPPED. HE FELL VERTICV ALLY APPROX. 8 0T. HE LANDED ON HIS FEET THEN FELL BACKWARD ONTO A STEEL GRATING FLOOR.
ROOF BOLTER HEA8 WENT UP AND PINNED HAND AGAINST ROOF
EMP WAS GOING T2RU A BACK CHECK IN #2 LINE ROOM WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON H BEAM COMPLAINED OF SORE NECK THE NEXT DAY AT WORK AFTER LOADING CABLE ONTO A SCOOP HE STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THE SORE NECK WAS D6E TO STRIKING THE H BEAM THE PREVIOUS DAY
INJURED CLAIMS 4HILE LIFTING A 12 INCH FLANGE OFF OF A SHELF HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMP WAS LIFITNG3100 LB INTO CARDBOARD BOX AND HURT LOWER PART OF BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS GO3NG THRU WATER TOWARDS MANDOOR AND SLIPPED AND THREW HIS BACK OUT WHEN HE WENT TO CATCH HIMSELF
EMPLOYEE MASHED3FINGER (THUMB) WHILE HOLDING A BAR WHILE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS THUMB WITH KA HAMMER WHEN ATTEMPTING TO KNOCK OUT A PIN FROM A HYDRAULIC JACK ON A LEE-NORSE ROOFBOLTER
WHILE LOADING A3TRACK DRILL THE TOUNGE BROKE BOLT ACTUALLY THAT HELD TONGUE TOGETHER WHEN IT FLEW AWAY FROM MACHINE IT WEDGED I.NAMES KNEE AND PUNCTURED HIS LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS RE8TACKING 50 LBS BAGS WHEN HAD TIPPLEED OVER INSIDE AND OVER SEAS CONTAINER.WHILE DOING SO HE TRIPPED OVER ONE OF THE BAGS AND TWISTED HIS ANKLE.
HIT HIS ELBOW A1AINST THE FRAME OF AN S & H SCOOP.
EMPLOYEE WAS WO9KING ON GAS LINE WRENCH SLIPPED & HE HURT BACK
EE WAS CARRYING3ROOF BOLT BOARDS FROM THE REAR OF T HE MACHINE TO T HE RIGHT SIDE BOLTER ARM WHEN HE S TEEPED IN A HOLE & TWISTED HIS LOWER BACK. HE BOLTED 2 PLACES AFTER THE ACCIDENT BIT %*<%*<< BUT3THE PAIN-A BURNING SENSATION- PERSISTED & HE DECIDED TO SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT.
AS THE VICTIM 4AS WLKING TOWARD THE FACE IN #3 ENTRY HIS RIGHT SHOULDER STRUCK A BELT HANGER THAT WAS NO LONGER IN USE. THIS RESULTED IN A SLIGHT ABRASION ON HIS SHOULDER.
EMPL DEVELOPED 6ACK PAIN DURING SHIFT WHILE HE WAS LIFTING KILN CHAIN.
IN THE WET FEED3TUNNEL A ROCK BECAME LODGED IN FEED CHUTE EE ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE ROCK WITHOUT STOPPING THE CONVEYOR & WEDGED HAND ONTO BELT.
SUPERVISING PRE3START UP MI.AINTENANCE ON #1 KENNEDY VAN SUAN COAL MILL I NAME CLIMBED LADDER TO CHECK OIL FLOW RT FOOT SLIPPED FROM LADDER (LEFT SHOULDER FRACTURED SCA SCAPULA) WHILE 5EFT FOOT WAS ON LADDER, HIS WEIGHT SHIFTED TO RT CAUSING HIM TO FALLAGAINST MILL PARTS
EMPLOYEE WAS CH3PPING AWAY FROM BROKEN BINDICATOR, SMALL PIECE OF CEMENT OR METAL SHOT INTO INDEX FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
MAN STATED THAT3WHILE WALKING AROUND PARKED ROOF BOLTER A PEICE OF CLOD FELL AND STRUCK HGIM ON HEAD. MAN COMPLAINED OF NECK PAIN AND WAS TRANSPORTED OUT OF UNIT ON STRETCHER AND THEN BROUGHT TI EMERGENCY RO2M AT HOSPITAL
LIFTING CRIB BL2CK OFF OF BELT AND STRAINED MUSCLE IN BACK WHILE TURNING SIDE WAYS.
WET BOTTOM CAUS9D SCOOP TO BOUNCE.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN8TALLING ROOF BOLTS AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA8HING FIRST FLOOR OF PREP PLANT WITH WATER HOSE. EMPLOYEE STATED HE STARTED TO TURN AROUND AND HIS KNEE POPPED.
WHILE LEFTING P3PE ON FRONT OF CHERRY PICKER VICTIM WAS WALKING WITH BLOCK TO REPOSITION SLING WHEN THE PIPE FELL ABOUT 2' & STRUCK VICTIMS LEFT FOOT. THE PIPE WAS 8" & ABOUT 29' LONG. ABOUT 100# OIF WEIGH7.
UNSAFE ACT WHIL9 REPAIRING A FILTER PRESS PUTTING HAND INSIDE RUNNING EQUIPEMNT WHILE ATTEMPTING REPAIRS.
SLIPPED OFF OF 7RACK ON DOZER TO THE GROUND.
I.NAME THREW TR5CK SWITCH FOR I.NAME TO PULL INTO SIDE SWITCH.FRONT TRUCKS WENT INTO SWITCH HOWEVER REAR TRUCKS SPLIT SWITCH AND REAR OF BUS WRECKED CATCHING I.NAME LEGS WITH BUS AND AGAINST B ELT ROPE CAUSIN1 BRUISE TO BOTH LEGS ABOVE KNEE.S.
HE WAS PRYING W3TH A SLATE BAR AND IT SLIPPED AND HE FELL ACROSS THE SCOOP TIRE ON HIS BACK.
ROCK 1/2'' THIC5 X 10'' ROUND HIT HIM IN THE BACK.SAID HE WASNT HURT THEN LATER SAID HE WANTED TO GO HOME.ROCK FELL FROM THE TOP PER CALL 1-6-87.
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT AS HE WAS INSTALLING A TRUSS BOLT A PIECE OF DRAW SLATE FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING HIS NECK & LEFT SHOULDER AREA NOTE EMPLOYEE DID NOT INITIALLY LOSE TIME HE WORKED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME 7HEN LATER STARTED LOSING TIME AS A RESULT OF THIS ACCIDENT
EMP WAS USING A7EYTLENE TORCH TO BURN A LOCK OFF HIS TOOL BOX HE HAD HIS LEFT HAND ABOVE THE TORCH WHEN A HOLE BLEW THROUGH THE TUBE A FLAME WSCAPED THROUGH THE HOLE BURNING EMPLOYEES HAND A FINGERS 3
EE STATED TJAT 4E WAS OPERATING S/C A RIB ROLLED OFF STRIKING HIM ON LEG EE DID NOT MISS ANY WORK UNTIL 2-4-87 HJIS KNEE STARTED TO SWELL & HURT.
EMPLOYEE WAS SE7TING MINER BITSX & STRUCK HIS FINGER WITH A HAMMER IN PROCESS CAUSING A CRUSHING INJURY TO HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER
ON OCT. 86, EMP5OYEE WAS MOVING MINER CABLE ON PULLED A MUSCLE IN BACK, NEW THERE IS A DISK ON BACK THAT IS LYING ON A NERVE WHICH GOES TO HIS LEG THERE WERE NO EQUIP. OR ACCIDENT INVALVED.
EE HAD PULLED I3 PLACE SET HIS JACKS & BEGIN TO DRILL TO SET HIS BOLTS & APPARENTLY THE VIBRATION CAUSED THE ROCK TO FALL. ROCK FELL ON EES RIGHT ARM BRUISING ELBOW.
A SLAB OF COAL 0ELL FROM THE TOP AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ON LEFT KNEE CAP.
EMP WAS IN A LO5DER BUCKET SCALING LOOSE ROCK FROM THE BACK AND RIBS OF THE 128'4 ACCESS. HE HAPPENED TO LOWER THE SCALING BAR OVER HIS FOOT TO HIT A LOOSE ROCK, AT THE SAME MOMENT THE LOADER OPERATOR ROLLED3THE BUCKET BACK. WHILE THE SCALING BAR WAS STILL OVER HIS FOOT, IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE BACK. HIS LEFT FOOT WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE SCALING BAR AND THE LOACER BUCKET
EMP WAS RAISING3ENGINE HOOD TO CHECK THE OIL LEVEL AS EMP STOOD UP HE FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK. THE MACHINE WAS A REFUSE OR DIRT COMPACTOR THIS IS A NORMAL JOB CHECKING OIL LEVEL THE EMP STAR STARTED LOSING 7IME 12 18 86
SHE WAS IN A PA9TIALLY BENT POSITION BARRING DOWN LOOSE RIB WHEN A PIECE OF COAL FELL STRIKING HER ON THE LOWER BACK.
WHILE USING A H2DRAULIC PRESS A LARGE STEEL BLOCK WEIGHING APPROX 20 LBS FELL ON TO EMPLOYEES FOOT CUTTING THROUGH SHOE SOCK FLESH AND TO THE BONE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SERIOUS UNTIL INFECTION SET IN 3
AS THE EMPLOYEE3REACHED FOR A ROOF BOLT A PIECE OF TOP FELL STRIKING HIS RING AND LITTLE FINGER. HE SUFFERED A BROKEN FINGER.
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CONNECT THE BONDER TO A POWER SOURCE ANS ARC OCCURED CAUSING BURNS TO HIS LEFT HAND.EMPLOYEE RECEIVED 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS.
EMP SAYS HE CLI4BED UP ON RAM CAR TO HANG THE CABLE UP AND JUMPED OFF RAMCAR
EE WAS WLKING A7ROSS #4 ENTRY. #2 S/C OPER WAS WORKING & HAULING THRU #4. EE STEPPED ONE FOOT ACROSS CABLE & #2 S/C TOOK UP SLACK & EE WAS TRIPPED & CAUGHT UP LEFT ARM & S HOULDER IN CABLE.
EE STATED HE WA8 UNLOADING TIMBERS FROM SUPPLY CAR INTO SCOOP EE WAS PITCHING A TIMBER & IT FELL BACK ON HIS TOE.
CLAIMANT STATES3HE WAS DRIVING A NAIL WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND HIT THE FIRST FINGER ON LEFT HAND 4 STITCHES AND CHIPPED BONE
THIS MAN WAS RO2FBOLTING WITH A RESIN WRENCH PROPPED ON TOP OF A STACK OF CAP PIECES.WHEN HE STARTED IT UP IT SLID OFF AND INTO HIS RIGHT LEG.HE MISSED THE SHIFT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY.
DRIVING SCOOP D6ST GOT IN EYE
EMPLOYEE STATED3WHILE DIS-MOUNTING FROM RAM CAR SLIPPED CXAUSING HIM TO BUMP H IS RT KNEE
HE WAS WORKING 5ROUND THE BELT TAIL WHEN A SMALL ROCK APPROX 8" IN DIAMETER BUT VERY THIN WITH SHARP EDGES DISLODGED FROM THE ROOF & STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT RING FINGER.
EMPL LIFTING BE5T WITH PRY BAR FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
SWITCHING POSIT3ONS ON SHUTTLE CAR WHILE IN PROCESS OF CHANGING SEATS THE CAR MOVED PINNING RT FOOT BETWEEN CAR & COAL RIB
EMPLOYEE DROPPE8 HIS DRILL ON HIS FOOT WHILE REACHING TO GRAB THE STEEL COMING OUT OF THE HOLE.A PART OF THE MACHINE PUNTURED THE BOOT WHILE BREAKING A METATARSAL.
THE INJURED WAS3WALKING DOWN TO MOTORMAN'S SHOP NEAR SLOPE BOTTOM. THE INJURED SLIPPED ON ICE ALONG TRACK TWISTING RIGHT ANKLE.
WAS HELPING REM2VE CANOPY FROM SCOOP.CANOPY SLIPPED INJURING FINGERS BETWEEN CANOPY AND TOP.
HE WAS PULLING 2N MINER CABLE & HURT HIS LEFT FOOT WAS STANDING ON STONE WHILE PULLING
INJURED CLAIMS 4HILE LIFTING A SAMPLE PAIL HE FELT PAIN IN HIS BACK
PERSON STATED, 4AS LOADING ROOF BOLT EXTENSIONS STEPPED IN HOLE AND STRAINED BACK
PULLING SHUTTLE3CAR OFF DUMP WITH ANOTHER SC TURNBUCKLE FLEW LOOSE AND STRUCK INDEX FINGER LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE STATED3HE WAS HITTING BARGE CLAMP WITH HAMMER TO BREAK IT LOOSE WHEN THE CLAMP SUDDENLY MOVED BACK. THE DOG EAR ON THE CLAMP. CAUGHT BEHIND THE STEEL TOE ON HIS LEFT FOOT. HE RECEIVED A FRACTURE TO 2IS TOE.
WHILE INSTALLIN1 ROOF BOLTS THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING BOLT IN HOLE THE BOLT BENT & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN T HE WRENCH & THE MACHINE
MAN CLAIMED TO 2AVE STEPPED IN A HOLE OR STUMBLED OVER SOMETHING GETTING OUT OF A MANTRIP PLUS HE CLAINED HE HAD JUST MISED A WEEKS WORK BECAUSE HE HAD HURT HIS BACK LOADING WOOD IN A PICKUP HE IS CLAIMING 6ACK PAIN BUT HAS BEEN SEEN CARRING, BENDING, LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER AND WALKING WITH NO IMPAIRMENT
ROLLING ROCK OF0 BELTLINE TWISTED BACK
EMP WAS STANDIN1 ON AN ANGLE CLIP TAKING CHUTE DOWN AND THE CLIP BROKE CAUSING HIM TO F AL LDOWN ON CONCRETE FLOOR AND BRUISED HIS RT LOWER LEG
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 UNLOADING LENGTHS OF 1" PIPE FROM A SUPPLY WAGON. HE GRABBED 2 LENGTHS OF PIPE AT ONE END & "FLIPPED" THE OTHER END FROM THE WAGON ONTO THE MINE FLOOR. WHEN THE PIPE HIT THE B OTTOM A "SCISSO9S"-TYPE ACTION RESULTED AT THE I ENDS OF THE PIPE THE EMPLOYEE HELD, CATCHING HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE PIPE.
EMP STATED THAT3HE PICKED UP A CEMENT BLOCK AND TWISTED HIS BACK
EE WAS MOVING A3ROCK INTO ROADWAY TO BE SCOPPED UP WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN LEFT GROIN AREA.
EMPL CUTTING 3/4'' ROPE WITH POCKET KNIFE.STANDING ON ROPE WITH LEFT FOOT HOLDING ROPE WITH LEFT HAND.CUT ROPE CUTTING MOTION CONT AND KNIFE BLEADE WENT INTO LEFT LEG.
I.NAME WAS BACK3NG HIS TRUCK IN CUT,WHEN IT STRUCK I.NAME'S ROCK TRUCK WHILE PARKED.
EE WAS CLEANING3COAL WITH HIS DOZER. HE WAS BACKING UP & MOVING OVER THE WINDROW OF MATERIAL TO START ANOTHER RUN. WHEN HIS DOZER CROSSED THE WINDROW OF MATERIAL THE DOZER HJARRED HIS BACK.
WHILE BACKING R2CKDUSTER AROUND CORNER, HE HAD HIS HAND ON GUARD POST AND ROCKDUSTER JACKKNIFED UP AGAINST GUARD POST CUTTING HIS THUMB.
ROOF BOLTER OPR3WAS LOADING PIN SUPPLIES & PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.
WHILE WORKING O3 COANVEYOR BELT EE INJURED KNEE.
EMP ARRIVED AT 4ORK WALKING THROUGH PARKING LOT, STUMBLED AND FELL
LOOSE ROCK FEL 6ETWEEN THE ROOF BOLT & T HE COAL RIB. IT STRUCK VICTIM ON THE LEFT LEG BREAKING THE BONE ABOUT 5" BELOW THE KNEE.
UNJ AND BUDDY W9RE REMOVING PALLET LOADED WITH SOLID BLOCK FROM SUPPLY CAR WITH A SCOOP INTENDED TO LOADED PALET TO SCOOP BUCKET THEN MOVE TO WORK SITE AS PALLET WAS PULLED FROM FLAT CAR USINT ROPE HOIST A ST9EL BAND BROKE FROM PALLET 10 BLOCKS FELL INJ WHO WAS NOT WEARING METAL GUARD SHOES WAS STRUCK ON FOOT BY ONE FALLING BLOCK
MOVING ROCK AWA2 FROM BELT.
I.NAME WAS IN T3HE PROCESS OF REFUELING F A 945 LOADER WHEN I.NAME RTEACHED FOR THE FUEL PUMP HOSE HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
DRIVE SHAFT DRO1PED OUT OF HAUL UNIT CAUSING OIL TO SPRAY ON EXHAUST SYSTEM, WHICH IN TURN CAUSED A FLASH FIRE. EMPLOYEE PANICED AND JUMPED FROM HAUL UNIT.
WHEN MOVING DRE8GE,EMPLOYEE HAD TO REPIN SPUD ON BEKER I AND WHEN LIFTING PIN HE PULLED BACK MUCLES.
HE CUT HIS RIGH7 HAND WHILE TRYING TO FREE AN INJURED MINER FROM ROCK TRUCK ACCIDENT.
HE WAS WALKING 2N THE LUBE BAY DOCK WHEN HE STEPPED & TWISTED HIS RT KNEE HE CONTINUED TO WALK ON IT UNTIL TODAY WHEN IT BECAME MORE PAINFUL THIS BECAME A REPORTABLE INJURY TODAY 122386
EMPLOYEE WAS PI7KING UP A PIECE OF STEEL AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
EE DOES NOT KNO4 HOW HE CAME IN CONTACT WITH TW WHAT IS ASSUMED TO BE H F ACID.
EMPLOYEE CLAIMS3OPERATORS SEAT ON 980 LOADER WAS TWISTED WHICH AFTER TWO DAYS OF OPERATION AFTER RETURNING FROM 2 WEEK VACATION CAUSED BACK PAIN
INJURED PULLED 2IS DUMP TRUCK HEAD TO HEAD WITH DUMP TRUCK WHICH WAS BEING LOADED, HE SET BRAKES AND GOT OUT ON CATWALK TO TELL DRIVER OF DUMP TRUCK THAT HE WAS GOING TO SWAP TRUCKS FOR LUBE R OOM, WHEN HIS D6MP TRUCK ROLLED INTO TRUCK PINNING HIM BETWEEN CATWALK AND CAB.
EMPLOYEE WORKIN1 WITH OTHERS INSIDE MOTOR HOUSE ON MACHINERY DECK OF P & H 2300 SHOVEL EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN FREEING AN ENTANGLED HOIST CABLE CABLE CAME LOOSE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON BACK AND BACK OF LEGS C5USING MINOR FRACTURE TO DISTAL TIP POSTERIOR OF FIBULA OF LEFT LEG
EMPLOYEE WAS ST9PPING ONTO SHOE OF DRAGLINE ANKLE TURNED & HE FELL ONTO HIS RT SHOULDER & STRAINED IT
EMP WAS WORKING3 IN THE CLINKER TUNNEL AND REACHED TO THROW A PIECE OF CLINKER INTO THE BUCKET OF A BOBCAT AND HIS FEET SLIPPED. HE STRAINED HIS BACK WHEN HE CAU GHT HIMSELF 3
STEPPED ON CAT3WALK & IT WAS WET & SHE SLIPPED.
INJURED WAS NAI5ING BRATTICE BOARD UP WHEN THE BOARD FELL STRIKING HER ON THE LEFT RING FINGER.
EMPL REPAIRING 0LAT ON LUBE TRUCK BENDING DOWN ON KNEES TO PUT RING ON WHEEL,PICKED UP HAMMER FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
I,NAME CAME INT2 CONTACT WITH FAS-WALL, IRRITATING HIS SKIN.
INJURED WAS TO 7HANGE CRUSHER HAMMERS. TO REMOVE THE HAMMERS A 2 TON HAND CHAIN HOIST NEEDED TO BE RELOCATED. TO DO THIS INJURED EE CLIMBED A STEP LADDER UNHOOKED THE CHAIN HOIST 60# FROM TH E ROPE SLING & 8ESCENDED LADDER CARRYING HOIST. EE REPORTED FELT A PULL IN LOWER BACK. ON 12-19-86 REQUESTED TO SEE DR AS PAIN PERSISTED TO POINT WHERE MOBILITY WAS VERY LIMITED. THE DR DIAGN
WHILE WALKING D2WN HILL BACK TO HIS JOB SITE HE SLIPPED, BUT DIDNT FALL AND TWISTED HIS KNEE
EMP WAS PLACING350 LB BAGS ON PALLETS AND SAID HE FELT KINK IN HIS BACK
SUBJECT AND THR9E OTHERS WERE LOADING A SMALL SAFE ONTO A TRUCK SUBJECT STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS PU7TING SHRINK WRAP BAGS OVER PALLETS WHEN THE CORNER OF THE BAG HIT HIM ON THE SURFACE OF H IS EYE
HAUL TRUCK SPUN3OUT ON ICY GRADE AS TRUCK STARTED TO SLIDE BACKWARDS DRIVER JUMPED FROM CAB TO GROUND LACERATED HANDS ON CONTACT WITH ICE AND ROCKS ON THE GROUND TRUCK SLID BACKWARDS 100 FT A AND STOPPED AGA3NST HILLSIDE ON EDGE OF ROAD NO DAMAGE TO TRUCK LACERATIONS REQUIRED SUTURES
WORKER STEPPED 6ACKWARD AND SAID HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL NEXT SHIFT, AND AFTER HAD SEEN DR COULD HAVE REMINAED AT THE JOB DOING REGULAR DUTY. AFTER DISCUSSION WITH D
EMPLOYEE SLIPPE8 ON WET CONCRETE WHILE CARRYING SCAFFOLD EQUIPMENT KNEE STRUCK SCAFFOLD PLANK
CROSSING UNDER 3NCLINE TO AVOID SPILL WENT TO DUCK UNDER CONDUIT FOOT SLIPPED HIT FACE ON CONDUIT
INJURED STRUCK 2AND WITH WRENCH WHILE CCHANGING A DRILL HAMMER ON DRILLING MACHINE.
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT HE WAS OFF THE TRACK.HE REACHED INTO THE RAIL ROVER TO PICK UP A JACK AND HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
GETTING OUT OF 7RUCK TO GO TO BATH HOUSE AND TWISTED RIGHT LEG.
EMPLOYEE WAS AS8ISTING IN CHANGING A TOOTH POINT AND ADAPTER ON THE 5900 MARION SHOVEL HIS LEFT FOOT WAS UNDER THE TOOTH POINT WHEN THE MACHINE SETTLED DOWN AND THE TOOTH POINT CONTACTED EMPLO YEES LEFT FOOT 3
EMPLOYEE,A MINE3OPERATIONS HAULAGE TRUCK DRIVER,SUSTAINED MULTIPLE FRATURES TO HIS LEFT LOWER LEG WHEN HIS TRUCK COLLIDED WITH A PIT WALL WHILE HAULING WASTE MATERIAL TO A WASTE DUMP.
TIGHTENING HAND3BRAKE ON RAIL CAR AND STRAINED MUSCLE.
INJURED SLIPPED3& FELL CAUSING BRUISES TO HIP & BACK
RIGGING TO RAIS9 EXHAUST FAN OFF OF MILL ROOF STEPPED BACK AND FELL THRU ROOF TO GROUND APPROX 14 FT
HAULING OVERBUR8EN INTO PIT BOTTOM HAUL TRUCK ENTERED CORNER WITH A LOAD ON AFTER ENTERING CORNER HE MUST HAVE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO FAST & APPLIED BRAKESS CAUSING TRUCK TO SLIDE SIDEWAYS RO ADS WERE GOOD A7 THE BEGINNING OF SHIFT BUT SUN CAME OUT & CAUSED THAWING & ROADS BECAME SLIGHTLY SLIPPERY
HE WAS REMOVING31 1/2" PIPE FROM THE PIPE BENDER WHEN HIS HELPER PICKED UP THE PIPE FROM THE OTHER END-MASHING HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE PIPE & THE BENDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS ON3LOADED BARGE NEXT TO CENTER RAMP THEY HAD JUST FINISHED LOADING THIS BARGE EMPLOYEE WAS ASKED BY WINCH OPERATOR TO STICK BARGE FOR MEASUREMENTS AS EMPLOYEE REACHED DOWN WITH ST ICKING POLE TO 4EASURE BARGE SAID BARGE SWUNG IN TOWARD CENTER RAMP AND CAUGHT THE EMPLOYEES RING FINGER LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE LOADED BARGE AND THE CENTER RAMP
HELPING WELDER 5DJUST A PIPE TWISTED LOWER BACK
SUBJECT OPENED 8TOVE DOOR TO ADD FUEL WHEN FLAME SHOT OUT OF DOOR CAUSING 2ND DEGREE BURN TO RT HAND
THE INJURED WAS3RAN OVER BY A SCOOP. THE SCOOP OPERATED DID NOT SEE HIM.
INJ MAN WALKING3AROUND STAGE LOADER ON THE LONGWALL SECTION WHEN A RIB ROLLED HITTING INJ ON LEFT FOOT
STRUCXTURE WAS 6EING TAKEN APART BOLTS HAD BEEN CUT OFF BUT STRUCTURE WAS STILL TOGETHER I NAME WS ATTEMPTING TO HOOK A CHAIN TO THE STRUCTURE SO THAT IT COULD BE PULLED APART THE STRUCTURE BE BEGAN TO COME A1ART ON ITS OWN AND I NAME PUSHED HIMSELF AWAY, TURNING HIS ANKLE
EMP WAS OPERATI3G DOZER WITH RIPPER ENGAGED TO BREAK ROCK AND MOVE OVERBURDEN OPERATOR STOPPED FORWARD MOTION OF DOZER AND PREPARED TO M OVE IN REVERSE WHEN DOZER MOVED VERY LITTLE IN REVERSE IT DROPPED VERY3SUDDENLY INTO A HOPLE CREATED BY ROCK REMOVAL OF RIPPER ACTION THEN DOZER STOPPED ABRUPTLY WHEN IT HIT BOTTOM OF CRATER
VICTIM WAS OPER5TING #3163 HI GHWALL DRILL WORKING WITH DRILL STEEL-RT LITTLE FINGER BECAME PINCHED BETWEEN STEEL & FRAME IN AMN ATTEMPT TO RELEASE FINGER THE STEEL WAS TURNED THE WRONG WAY SM ASHING THE FING9R
WALKING TO DOZE9 AND HE STEPPED IN A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS KNEE.
IN SHOP HAD SOM9THING IN HIS EYE.AFTER WORK STARTED HAVING PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS HE5PING REPAIR THE SCREENING PLANT HE WAS CARRYING ONE END OF THE BEAM LOST BALANCE AND BUMPED HIS KNEE ON THE CORNER OF THE HAND RAIL. INJURY TO THE RIGHT KNEE.
INJURED WALKED 6ETWEEN C/M & HIGH RIB TO PULL CABLE BACK WHEN RIB ROLLED & STRUCK HIM ON RIGHT LEG.
VENTILATION FAN8 HAD BEEN OFF FOR 5 TO 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO IGNITION EMPLOYEE RECEIVED BURNS TO FACE AND HAN DS
EMPLOYEE WAS US3NG A 5 FOOT ONG PRY BAR TO PRY ON DUMP DOORS OF HAUL TRUCK.AS HE WAS PRYING HE FELT DISCOMFORT IN HIS LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE STEPPE8 ON ICE WITH RT FOOT CAUSING HIM TO TWIST HIS LEFT KNEE
EMPLOYEE HAD GO5F CART JACKED UP TO REPAIR BRAKE CABLE.JACK SLIPPED AND CART FELL ON EMPLOYEE'S HEAD.CUTTING EAR.
EMP LIFTED A WA7ER PUMP ABOUT 50 LBS OUT OF REAR END OF PICKUP TRUCK WITH TAIL GATE OPEN, AND SAT IT ON THE GROUND. HE FELT NOTHING BUT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MINUTES LATER HIS BACK BEGAN TO FEEL SORE. IT CONTIN6ED TO FEEL WORSE AND HE REPORTED TO FIRST AID AT 11 30 AM AND ASKED TO SE A DR THE DR GAVE HIM SOME MUSCLE RELAXING PILLS AND AN EXCUSE TO BE OFF WORK UNTIL 12 17
MANTRIP RUN OVE9 A ROCK IN THE ROADWAY EMPLOYEE JARRED BACK.
VENTILATION FAN8 HAD BEEN OFF 5 TO 10 MIN. PRIOR TO IGNITION. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN BACK AGAINST WALL.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 WALKING ACROSS THE LONGWALL SHIELD LINE ADVANCING THE SHIELDS WHEN HE STEPPED BETWEEN THE BASES OF TWO SHIELDS AND HIS FOOT FOULED THUS PULLING A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT LEG AS HE STARTED TO STE1 OUT.
BACKING CUTTING3MACHINE AROUND CORNER.STOP MACHINE BUT IT ROLLED AND PIN LEG AGAINST RIBS MASHING MUSCLES.
EMPL BACKED SCO2P IN MOTOR BARN AND STOOD UP IN DECK.FEET SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL IN SCOOP DECK STRIKING HEAD ON SOMETHING IN SCOOP DECK.
EMP WAS PERCHED3ON A PLATFORM ON TOP OF THE TWIN BOOMS OF THE FACE DRILL. THE DRILL OPERATOR MOVED ONE OF THE BOOMS TO THE OUTSIDE DROPPING THE PLATFORM BETWEEN THE BOOMS I NAME GRABBED THE MACHINE TO KEEP3FROM FALING AND OVEREXTENDED HIS HAND AND SPRAINED THE LEFT SHOULDER
INJURED WAS WAL5ING DOWN STAIRWAY AS HE STEPPED FROM BOTTOM STAIR ONTO FLOOR HIS FOOT TURNED & THE RESULTING SHIFT IN WSEIGHT CAUSED A BONE IN HIS FOOT TO CRACK
HE WAS POSITION3NG THE BOX OF HIS HAUL TRUCK UNDER THE LOADER BUCKET. WHEN HELOST SIGHT OF THE REAR CORNER OF THE BOX, HE RAN INTO THE RIB.
TWISTED BACK WH3LE STEPPING OFF BELT TAIL
THE EMPLOYEE ST5TED HE WAS LIFTING TOOL BOX OFF OF 7 TON MOTOR, AS HE LIFTED THE BOX OFF OF THE MOTOR HE STRUCK THE BOX AGAINST HIS LEFT LEG. HE THEN FELL TO THE MINE FLOOR.
VETNILATION FAN8 HAD BEEN OFF 5 TO 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO IGNITION EMPLOYEE RECEIVED BURNS TO HANDS AND FACE
TH EMPLOYEE WAS3TRYING TO PULL THE DRILL STEEL OUT OF A HOLE AND STRAINED HIS BACK.
RECONDITIONED E0UIPMENT WAS TAKEN UNDERGROUND TO START MINING A NEW SECTION. OPERATOR WAS RUNNING SHUTTLE CAR S/N ET 14034 TRAM CONTROLS STUCK AND OPERATOR GOT FOULED AGAINST RIB, DAMAGE WAS D ONE TO OPERATOR2S LEFT ARM.
WAS OUTSIDE LOA8ING SUPPLIES AND LIFTED A S CAR TIRE AND HURT BACK
WHILE BOLTING A3PIECE OF DRAW ROCK FELL ON HIS ARM POSSIBLE BREAK IN BONE
EMPLOYEE ALLEGE8 HE WAS STANDINGWITH BOTH FEET IN MUD WHEN HE WENT TO MOVE HE STRAINED HIS RIGHT KNEE ULTIMATERLY RESULTING IN ARTHOSCOPIC SURGERY.SAFETY DEPARTMENT WAS NOT NOTIFIED TILL 02-03 -87 THAT I NAME3WAS OFF WORK SINCE 01-16-87 DUE TO THE INJURY.
EE LOST CONTROL3OF BELL & IT FELL & CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN THE BELL & THE MINE FLOOR.
SEVERAL WELDERS3WORKING AT SAME TIME CAUSING GLARE & BURNING EYES.
EMPL WELDING IN3SQUATTING POSITION LEANED FORWARD AND FELT PAIN IN LEFT BIG TOE.
AFTER BEING NOT3FIED BY THE CENTRAL CONTROL ROOM OF A POSSIBLE PLUG UP IN THE FIRST STAGE OF THE PREHEATER, INJURED PROCEEDED TO THE AREA, AND WITHOUT WAITING FOR ASSISTANCE AND WITHOUT PROTEC EQUIPMENT OPENE8 THE FIRST STAGE VESSEL DOORS. AS THE SOUTH DOOR WAS OPENED HOT KILN FEED BEGAN ESCAPEING INJURED ATTEMPTED TO RUN CLEAR, BUT HIS RIGHT FOOT WAS ENGULFED BY THE MATERIALS.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING UNDER TRANSFER BELT. SHOVEL SLIPPED ON ROCKY SO AND EMPLOYEE S RIGHT ARM IN AREA FROM ELBOW TO WRIST STRUCK TRANSFER BELT FRAME. THIS CAUSED BRUISE AND SWELLING.
EE STATED WHILE3SHOVELING ON BELT A SMALL PIECE OF ROCK FELL OUT OF ROOF HITTING HIM ON BACK. EE STATED HIS BACK & KNEE WAS HURT. EE RETURNED TO WORK ON 12-13-86 & HAD WORKED UP TO NOW WITH OUT ANY PROBLEM8.
VENTILATION FAN8 HAD BEEN OFF FROM 5 TO 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO IGNITION EMPLOYEE RECEIVED BLOW TO LEFT FOOT AND ANKLE
EMPL WORKING ON3DIESEL TRACTOR AND THE COLD IRON OF THE MACHINE AND THE PRESSURED EXERTED FROM KNEELING ALL DAY RESULTED IN RIGHT KNEE PAIN.
EMP WAS BACKING3A CONT MINER HE SCRAPED HIS ARM ON THE MINER CABLE RESTRAINING CLAMP BOLTS
EMPLOYEE STATED3THAT AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO SCALE A KETTLE BOTTOM FROM THE ROOF, ANOTHER KETTLE BOTTOM FELL BEHIND HIM STRIKING HIS LEFT FOOT. AS A RESULT THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A SIMPLE FRACT URE TO HIS 4TH 5ND 5TH TOES.
EMPLOYEE AND C2WORKERS WERE CHANGING A 480 VOLT BREAKER THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD SECURED THE CIRCUIT AND THE EMPLOYEE TESTED THE CIRCUIT WITH A WIGGY TESTER IT SHOWED NO VOLTAGE THE EMPLOYEE THE N SHORTED ONE 1HASE WITH HIS SCREWDRIVER AND THE PRIMARY SIDE OF THE BREAKER FLASHED CAUSING SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO HIS RT HAND AND FACE
OPERATOR WAS PI3NING TOP AND A PIECE OF LOOSE DRAW-SLATE APPROX. 2'X4'X6" FELL STRIKE VICTIM ON LONER PART OF BACK. NO BONES BROKEN BUT BRUISES AND ABRAISONS WERE NOTED.
ONE END OF 60# 9AIL WAS IN THE SCOOP BUCKET INJ GRABBED THE RAIL AND ATTEMPTED TO SLIDE IT AWAY FROM THE OTHER RAILS SO THAT HE COULD HOOK UP WITH HIS TONGS. WHEN HE SLID THE RAIL IT CAUGHT HI FINGER AGAINST 7HE SCOOP BUCKET BOTTOM
HE WAS ROCK DUS7ING BELT DRIVE. HE REACHED TOHIS RIGHT AND PICKED UP A BAG OF ROCK DUST TO THROW TO HIS LEFT SIDE. WHEN HE PUT THE FORCE BEHIND THE THROW, THE BAG BROKE AND THE FORCE FROM THE FORCE FROM THE3THROW THREW HIM AND CAUSED HIS KNEE TO POP AND LOCK UP.
INJ EMP SANDING3NEAR STOVE IN PIT WARMING HOUSE, FELLOW EMP DASHED FUEL OIL INTO THE HOT STOVE. FLAMES ROLLED OUT OF STOVE INTO INJUREDS FACE CATCHING HIS GLOVES ON FIRE. EMP RECEIVED SEVERE BURNS TO FACE A3D BOTH HANDS
INJURED WAS PU5LING STACK STEEL OUT OF HOLE WHILE STEEL WAS ROTATING IN REVERSE STEEL CAUGHT GLOVE AND SPRAINED HIS RT HAND REQUIRED A LEATHER SPLINT
THE MAN WAS CAR9YING AN OXYGEN FROM THE FACE OF 4-SOUTH TO JEEP AT THE MOUTH OF P-5 AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. THE RESULTING INJURY AS DIAGNOSED BY HIS PHYSICIAN WAS A TORN MUSCLE.
EMPL WALKING AR2UND TAILPIECE WHEN HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS HAND ON TURNBUCKLE BREAKING 3RD & 4TH FINGER ON RIGHT HAND.
STEPPED OUT OF 1ICKUP TRUCK.STEPPED INTO POT HOLE CAUSING FX RIGHT ANKLE.
USING BAR TO IN8TALL BEARING ON SAND SCREW.BAR SLIPPED AND HIT HIM IN THE MOUTH.
INJURED WAS ASS3STING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE SLIDING A RAIL FROG OFF A JEEP WHEN HE HURT HIS BACK.
INJ BENT OVER F2RWARD TO MANIPULATE AN OBJECT WITH HANDS WHEN SOMETHING POPPED IN HIS LOWER BACK.
PULLING ON CHOK9RS TO HOOK UPMAN CAGE.
VENTILATION FAN8 HAD BEEN OFF FROM 5 TO 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO IGNITION EMPLOYEE SUFFERED BURNS TO HANDS AND FACE
EMPLOYEE WAS MO5ING AN ANVIL RING FROM THE FORKLIFT TO WHERE HE WAS INSTALLING IT (A COUPLE OF FEET)
EMPLOYEE WAS WE5DING INSIDE #4 SECONDARY SCREEN OVERSIZE CHUTE AND WAS USING HIS BACK TO BRACE HIMSELF AGAINST THE CHUTE WHEN THE EMPLOYEE STARTED TO MOVE HE TWISTED HIS BACK AND FELT SHOOTIN G PAIN IN BOTH 5EGS THIS RESULTED INA LUMBO SACRAL STRAIN CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO LOSE TIME FROM WORK
INJURED WAS SQU5TTING AGAINST RIB WRITING IN NOTEBOOK APPROX. 10' OUTBY BOOM OF MINER IN #2 ENTRY WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK 8' LONG 3'WIDE & 1' THICK FELL STRIKING INJURIES ON THE RT. SHOULDER RT. SIDE OF CHEST, 3 LEGS.
I,NAME WAS PUTT3NG DOWN BLOCKS OF WOOD TO LET PIN MACHINE CROSS OVER MINER CABLE. HIS OTHER FRIEND ON HE OPERATOR SIDE WAS DOING THE SAME THING. APPARENTLY, I,NAME THE OPERATOR GOT THROUGH AND THROUGH I,NAME3WAS TO, BUT I,NAME WAS LEANING OVER THE PIN MACHINE GETTING ANOTHER BLOCK FO WOOD. HIS FOOT WAS NEXT TO THE WHEEL THAN THE OPERATOR THOUGHT THEY WERE READY TO GO. WHEN GOING S
EMPLOYEE WAS GE7TING OFF PORTAL BUS CARRYING CANS OF HYDRAULIC OIL HE STEPPED ONTO A ROCK BAR LYING ON THE BOTTOM AND TWISTED HIS RT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS CU7TING DOWN ROOF BOLT WHEN A PIECE OF GOB FELL BEHIND HIM STRIKING HIM ON HIS LEGS.
ADJUSTING AUGER3MOTOR GEAR CASE TO INSTALL NEW AUGER CHAINS,STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER.
WHILE MOVING MI3ER CABLE HE STRUCK HAND AGAINST RIB WITH CABLE IN HAND.
ATTEMPTING TO S7RAIGHTEN BENT LEG ON CONT. MINER CANOPY CHAIN BRING USED BROKE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON LEFT HAND CHAIN WAS SECURED TO A SCOOP.
THIS MAN NAILIN1 A CURTAIN INTO THE RIB WHEN HE STRUCK HIS HAAND.
WAS WALKING INS3DE MINE WITH MINE INSPECTOR, WHEN BANK OF MUD GAVE WAY AND CAUSING FOOT TO CRELL & PERSON TO FALL ON G ROUND
EE WAS ATTEMPTI3G TO SEAL WATER LEAKS IN GAS WELL ISOLATION BOX WHEN HE GOT WET WITH WATER & CEMENT CAUSING CHEMICAL BURNS ON HHIS LEGS.